Rise From Eight Hundred

From the first to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, there was no invasion by Japanese infantry, and even no harassment by aircraft. The people of Dakouzidong Town had a rare quiet and peaceful Spring Festival.

But the officers and soldiers of the Four-line Regiment were not eligible to enjoy that long. Starting from the third day of the first lunar month, all members ended their vacation!

On the fourth day of the first lunar month, Tang Dao announced the adjustment of the internal division of labor of the Four-line Regiment at the "Spring Training" oath-taking meeting to send New Year's greetings to all officers and soldiers of the regiment.

Since the Ministry of Military Affairs officially announced that the Four-line Regiment was directly under the command of the Second War Zone Command and obtained the establishment of a special regiment, the Four-line Regiment also made adjustments to its internal organization.

First of all, the division of labor of the regiment. Since Chief of Staff Gong Shaoxun was to be stationed abroad for a long time, the commander of the Fourth Battalion, Lieutenant Colonel Shangguan Yun, was promoted to the position of Chief of Staff and concurrently served as the commander of the Fourth Battalion.

Lieutenant Colonel Gong Shaoxun served as the director of the External Affairs Department of the Four-line Regiment, focusing on the import of military equipment and external communication business.

Although the officers and soldiers in the regiment did not quite understand how important this Foreign Affairs Office was to the Four-Line Regiment, some old men from the cavalry battalion who had followed Gong Shaoxun to the 63rd Army had privately expressed their dissatisfaction, thinking that this was a disguised reduction of Gong Shaoxun's power.

Perhaps only a limited number of senior officers in the Four-Line Regiment knew how much Tang Tuanzuo trusted Gong Shaoxun. Whether it was the "No. 1 Laboratory" in Handan or the connection between the German Krupp Company and the American Rockefeller Company, they were all top secrets of the Four-Line Regiment.

Even Lei Xiong and Ye Chenghuan only knew that there was such a thing, but they did not know the details.

Moreover, only a few chief officers in the regiment knew that in addition to the research and development of new weapons and equipment and commercial cooperation, this Foreign Affairs Department had a more important function - intelligence!

Through the battle with the Japanese army this year, Tang Dao felt more deeply the importance of intelligence work.

In the past, the Four-Line Regiment wanted to obtain Japanese intelligence, mainly from the 80th Army or the theater headquarters, but this required the intelligence to be conveyed layer by layer, which was inefficient, and it was always subject to others and could not distinguish its authenticity.

The harm caused by a piece of false intelligence may not kill one or two people, but perhaps a hundred or even a thousand times more.

Tang Dao needs to develop its own intelligence system. It does not need to have a large staff like the Military Control Commission, and it wants to be omnipresent. Instead, Tang Dao hopes that its intelligence personnel are hidden in the market. It does not need to infiltrate any high-level personnel, but only needs to pay attention to the movements of the Japanese troops stationed in the area.

The intelligence system requires a lot of funds and personnel training. The funds are now sufficient for the Four-Line Group, which means that personnel training takes time, but this is like painting. How to paint without spreading the canvas?

Gong Shaoxun is the highest person in charge of foreign intelligence selected by Tang Dao. For this reason, Tang Dao specially asked Gong Shaoxun to go to the 683 Brigade Headquarters before leaving the station and returning to Handan. There is a big man who has been specialized in intelligence work for the 80th Army for several years. He and his teacher were responsible for the highest intelligence system of the 80th Army.

Do you think that the thousands of kilograms of pork given by Tang Tuanzuo were given for free? That was actually Gong Shaoxun's apprenticeship fee!

And following Gong Shaoxun, there were 30 veterans from Hebei Province and the three northeastern provinces. Together with Gong Shaoxun, they would become the initial prototype of the Four-Line Regiment's anti-Japanese intelligence agency.

The funding source and intelligence system of the Four-Line Regiment, two lines that were almost lifeline, were in Gong Shaoxun's hands. This degree of trust could not be replaced by the so-called official position. Moreover, Gong Shaoxun was still among the giants of the regiment, and his ranking was even higher than that of the chief of staff Shangguan Yun.

Moreover, nearly ten officers in the cavalry battalion were promoted, and there were two major officers, who were all Gong Shaoxun's direct line, completely eliminating the self-speculated rumors in the regiment.

Pang Dahai finally became the battalion commander of the artillery battalion and was promoted to lieutenant colonel; the air defense company was separated from the artillery battalion and established as an air defense battalion. Cheng Tieshou served as the battalion commander and was promoted to lieutenant colonel of the army.

Both artillery battalions were highly equipped with lieutenant colonels, which also shows the unshakable tactical position of the artillery battalion and the air defense battalion in the Four-Line Regiment.

The organization of the four major infantry battalions remains unchanged. The battalion commanders of the second battalion, Guo Shouzhi, and the fourth battalion commander, Shangguan Yun, are still lieutenant colonels in the army, while the battalion commander of the third battalion, Leng Feng, was promoted from major to lieutenant colonel.

Since then, all six battalions of the Four-Line Regiment have been upgraded to deputy regimental-level organizations. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that this is the preparation made in advance for the continued development of the Four-Line Regiment in the future.

The Second War Zone Command was not stingy this time, and gave the Four-Line Regiment nearly ten colonel officers in one go.

The mountain infantry company directly under the regiment headquarters was changed from a regular company-level unit to a deputy battalion-level unit. Although Captain Gu Xishui, who had just been promoted to a military rank, has not yet become an army major, it is only a matter of time.

The reconnaissance company and the engineering company were separated from the special service battalion and became directly under the regiment headquarters and changed to deputy battalion-level. The commander of the reconnaissance company, Lu Sanjiang, was not promoted again because he had just been promoted to captain, but the commander of the engineering company, Bai Sheng, was promoted to an army major this time, which made the engineer company commander from the Yunnan Army burst into tears with excitement.

The engineer company commander who was ordered to place explosives to blow up the Yellow River Bridge originally thought that he was a discarded pawn and was doomed, but he didn't expect that he would not die and could cross the threshold of intermediate officers and become a colonel one year later.

Yang Xiaoshan, the former company commander of the communications company, was transferred to the deputy battalion commander of the Dakouzidong Town Security Battalion. Although he still has the rank of captain, he is only one step away from the rank of major in the army.

Five people were promoted at the infantry company commander level, including Zhao Daqiang, the commander of the 1st company, Wei Donglai, the commander of the 2nd company, Cai Yongguan, the commander of the 5th company, Li Jiujin, the commander of the 7th company, and Tang Li, the commander of the 10th company, all of whom were successfully promoted to majors in the army.

The captain of the medical company, Tan Tai Mingyue, was promoted from captain to major, the deputy company commander, Er Ya, was promoted from second lieutenant to first lieutenant, the medical squad leader Zhuang Da Mei was successfully promoted to second lieutenant, and the girl, Daya, who joined the medical company of the Four Lines Regiment after the Battle of Licheng because she wanted to find Ming Xin, the sixth brother, was promoted to Army Sergeant.

It is rare to be promoted from a private to a non-commissioned officer in less than a year, not to mention in the medical company, even in the front-line combat troops.

Daya did not benefit from the Ming Xin trail that she finally found, but earned her own military merit. It was her duty as a nurse to rescue the wounded on the battlefield, but after carrying the wounded back in the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain and seeing the heavy casualties on the battlefield, she actually chose to take off the Red Cross cuffs and pick up the gun to fight the Japanese army in the trenches. Such a fierce woman is also extremely rare in the Four Lines Regiment.

Although Daya did not have an official record of killing Japanese soldiers, the female nurse who went to the battle with the baggage company and insisted on fighting in the trenches on the front line for nearly two hours gave great courage to the officers and soldiers of the Sichuan Army Recruit Corps who were already demoralized. After the war, she was called the Goddess of War by 2,000 recruits of the Sichuan Army Recruit Corps.

She jumped two levels and was promoted from a private to a lieutenant to serve as the squad leader of the medical squad, which is comparable to those who have won special merits and first-class merits.

Judging from the military rank alone, the nearly 18-year-old female sergeant is not far from Mingxin's first-class sergeant major.

Mingxin's mouth twitched slightly in the audience. His morality came from Zhengyi Dao, and there was no taboo such as marriage, but his ideal was to eliminate all the demons in the world. How could he be involved in these lustful things just after entering the world?

When he thought that after the victory of the war, he would lead a little kid back to the Taoist temple to see his senior brother: "Senior brother, the master was not found, but I brought you a nephew!"

Will the senior brother who is known for his honesty beat him? Mingxin felt that there was an 80% chance.

Apart from the young Mingxin's somewhat panic-stricken heart, many officers and soldiers of the Four-Line Regiment knew that as the four veterans of Tang Tuanzuo, Leng Feng, Lao Hei, Zhao Daqiang, and Li Jiujin, were all promoted to school officers, the new four little kings Yang Xiaoshan, Gu Xishui, Lu Sanjiang, and Qian Dazhu also began to gradually take charge of their own affairs and were moving towards a more important commander level.

This was originally a promotion order issued by the Second War Zone Command on the first day of the Lunar New Year. Tang Dao kept it secret until the spring training oath-taking meeting of the whole regiment to announce it, also to boost morale.

The four major infantry battalions, led by the battalion commanders of each battalion, entered the designated mountainous area to carry out civil engineering operations and simulated defensive operations and offensive operations.

Of course, for the core infantry battalions of the Four-Line Regiment, the most important purpose of this field exercise is to allow the new recruits added to the battalions to quickly adapt to the battlefield environment and get used to lying in cold trenches or tunnels instead of sleeping in comfortable barracks in cold weather.

Moreover, whether it is marching, civil engineering work or live-fire shooting, new soldiers and veterans need a process of running-in.

If they run-in in actual combat, it will undoubtedly cost enough lives. Tang Dao hopes to use exercises to make up for these shortcomings that cannot be touched in daily training.

The mountain artillery company and heavy mortar company of the artillery battalion are all dispatched, and are divided into four parts to accompany the four major infantry battalions for a half-month actual combat exercise.

To check whether the fortifications are solid or not, it is not for the superiors to check with their eyes, hands and feet!

Practice is the only criterion for testing truth!

The standard for Tang Tuanzuo to check whether the fortifications of each battalion are qualified is very simple, just bombard them with artillery!

The trenches use fake wooden men in military uniforms, but the excavated tunnels are occupied by the real company and platoon commanders.

The explosive power of the 150MM heavy mortar shell is not less than that of the Japanese 105 howitzer. If the excavated tunnel is not solid enough, the first to be buried will be the company and platoon commanders who command the excavation of the tunnel.

Of course, under the strict order of Tang Tuanzuo who was guiding the exercise with the Fourth Battalion, he was the first person to enjoy this treatment.

What does it feel like to be bombarded by your own artillery? In the words of Qin Ruoyu, the commander of the Fourth Battalion's artillery company: "That is a fear that has never arisen on the battlefield. I always feel that I must be a crazy person with a disordered mind!"

Yes! Any normal person may have this feeling. Using your sharpest spear to blow up your strongest shield, one of them will fail, and it will also waste precious ammunition. It may be ridiculous in any unit!

Sitting in the tunnel and feeling the artillery fire outside, Tang Dao answered Qin Ruoyu in this way, which also made Qin Ruoyu more determined in his choice.

"Yes! I'm afraid that many of the brothers in the camp call me a madman in their hearts, and even I feel a little crazy.

However, based on the comparison of national strength and military strength between the enemy and us at this time, if the Japanese are a strong adult, then my Chinese are a weak and old man who has entered his twilight years. Under normal circumstances, no matter what method the old man uses, he can't win.

The only way to win is to abandon normal thinking, become a madman, and fight them desperately by tearing, biting, and using all means that can hurt them!

If we don't go crazy and fight hard at this time, our Chinese will always be the sick man of East Asia in the eyes of those arrogant Westerners!

If possible, I hope that in the future, I don't have to throw that punch, and I can make the Westerners retreat!"

At that time, there were only Tang Dao and Qin Ruoyu in the tunnel. Qin Ruoyu could understand the first half and knew that Tang Dao meant not to be crazy. It is impossible to defeat the Japanese by using conventional means.

But the second half is a bit confusing. What does this have to do with the Western world? Why did the Western world retreat in the face of difficulties? Could it be that the Western world will eventually join this war of national defense in which China is already struggling?

"For individuals, society is a world of the survival of the fittest, and for countries, it is the same?

From the perspective of the country, there are no eternal friends, only eternal interests. When interests conflict, yesterday's allies will wield the butcher knife today. To prevent all this, you must be strong enough, so strong that people dare not point the knife at you." Tang Dao looked at the faint lights in the trembling of artillery fire and said faintly.

Qin Ruoyu certainly didn't know that although the anti-Japanese war in front of him was cruel, as the German Empire had invaded Slovakia in mid-1938 and officially took full control of the entire territory of Slovakia a few days ago, Tang Dao had already determined that the Second World War was about to break out.

The British Empire and the Gallic Empire will be forced to declare war on the German Empire in half a year. By then, the world will initially form two major camps. Japan's choice to join the Axis Powers has destined them to face off against giants such as the United States and the Russian Bear, whose national strength far exceeds theirs.

The Chinese battlefield, where they originally had the upper hand, will gradually regain the advantage as the Japanese army continues to invest in the Pacific battlefield.

Tang Dao can be sure that as long as they survive these difficult years or two, the Patriotic War will see the dawn.

The Four-Line Group must be stronger. If they win some local battles in the war against Japan, those who are still in conflict between surrender and resistance but control a large amount of resources and troops will not completely defect like Wang Ni.

But Tang Dao's eyes are no longer just on this battlefield that will only form a long-term tug-of-war and will no longer be one-sided.

The founding war 11 years later was actually more dangerous than this. If you are not careful, the powerful Western Alliance will invade China, which has just been established in the ruins.

China has missed the first and second industrial revolutions. If it misses the upcoming technological revolution, it will be a disaster for the Chinese nation.

The miserable conditions of the people in the deserts and African savannas in the future, and the quotations that even teenagers know that they will never grow up, let Tang Dao know that he and his brothers must be stronger.

The Four-Line Regiment now has no more than 10,000 people, but these 10,000 people are just seeds. When the Anti-Japanese War is over, even if only one-third or even one-quarter of these seeds survive, they will expand dozens of times in a few years.

At that time, if the Western Alliance led by American cowboys dares to come to the ice field, they will pay a more tragic price than before.

That punch brought at least a hundred years of peace!

And in order to achieve all this, Tang Dao, who has set his sights on the next few decades or even a hundred years, wants to do more.

The officers and soldiers of the Four-Line Regiment can only undergo a hellish training under the leadership of their commander, who looks cold on the outside but has actually ignited a crazy fire in his heart.

But compared to the infantry battalions, artillery battalions, cavalry battalions and other units that conducted "self-torture" live-fire exercises, the mountain infantry company and reconnaissance company chose to fight the Japanese army more directly.

Under the leadership of its new company commander Gu Xishui, the mountain infantry company conducted long-distance training. In just three days, it marched 140 miles on foot to reach the headquarters of the 38th Army in Mo'nan Town, Zhongtiao Mountain.

After obtaining certain supplies from the 38th Army, they crossed the Yellow River and marched more than 200 miles again to the headquarters of the 28th Division in Tongguan, where they rested for 8 hours, and then secretly crossed the river from Fenglingdu to attack an artillery position of the Japanese 3rd Division.

The 3rd Division may never have expected that it would become the victim again. It was attacked by a group of "strangely dressed" Chinese who came from nowhere during the Chinese New Year.

Almost the same pattern as the attack by a small group of Chinese troops last year, they first used the cover of night to launch a sneak attack, dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese infantry responsible for the alert, and then immediately used a large amount of explosives to blast and destroy the artillery position, and then quickly jumped into the mountains.

The 3rd Division, which had learned its lesson, directly dispatched an infantry battalion to pursue the murderer to avoid being ambushed by the Chinese again.

But what the Japanese army didn't expect was that the Chinese were really like crazy. Not only did they really ambush, but the number of attackers was as high as hundreds, and their weapons and equipment were extremely sophisticated. In addition to carrying small-caliber mortars, they actually had nearly ten "heavy machine guns". The firepower was so fierce that it almost made an infantry battalion of nearly a thousand people cry.

If the infantry battalion commander, Major Kondo Rizhao, hadn't made a prompt decision to evacuate, the loss might not be 232 people but doubled and tripled.

The Chinese are really too much, and they can't rest during the New Year!

When the Third Division reacted and fiercely deployed troops to send out brigade-level troops, vowing to annihilate this group of daring Chinese in the mountains, they were surprised to find that this group of Chinese disappeared into the remnants of Zhongtiao Mountain like air.

This is almost impossible. Although this group of Chinese did not have heavy weapons such as infantry guns, the "heavy machine guns" and mortars also weighed dozens of kilograms. How could they carry such heavy objects and run across the mountains?

But the reconnaissance of the sent-out scout team showed that the Chinese did not go anywhere else, but hid in the deep mountains where few people went. The reconnaissance planes hovering at low altitude found their figures more than 20 miles away from the battle site, and were also attacked by heavy machine guns that fired upwards at the air. The bullet holes on the wings were the best proof.

Could it be that they were a group of monkeys? No matter how much the Third Division wanted to retaliate, it could only sigh helplessly in front of the vast mountains.

They could enter the mountains, but in the primitive jungle where even donkeys could not walk, the soldiers could only be lightly equipped, without the protection of heavy machine guns and infantry guns, so how many people would be appropriate to send? An infantry regiment or an infantry brigade?

Thinking of this huge price, the unlucky child of the Third Division could only give up.

The mountain infantry company, which was based on the mountain people of Yeyue Village, did carry a lot of weight, but it was not as heavy as the Japanese imagined. The so-called heavy machine gun was just an MG42 with a tripod installed, with a total weight of only 25 kilograms. A machine gun team of three people was fully capable of handling it.

That was also the first time that the MG42 was put into actual combat, and it achieved remarkable results. The crazy firing rate was supported by the tripod, and the trajectory was more stable than that of a light machine gun bipod.

Not to mention that suppressing infantry was like mowing the grass, when shooting at the 92 heavy machine gun at a distance of 600 meters, it was like an adult meeting a kindergarten child, with no difficulty.

The military industry that the Japanese were proud of was nothing in front of German Seiko.

The weight of the experimental 60 mortar improved by Tang Tuanzuo with reference to the future Chinese 83-type 60 mortar was less than 8 kilograms. Thanks to the invention of cyclone explosives, the weight of a shell was reduced to 1 kilogram. A mortar group only needed 5 people to carry a mortar and 40 shells.

The purpose of this long-distance training is not to deal a heavy blow to the Japanese army, but to see whether the mountain infantry company can march quickly and efficiently in the rugged mountains and forests with conventional ammunition reserves as planned by Tang Tuanzuo, and can complete a large-scale operation.

Obviously, within a week, the army marched nearly 400 miles alone in a large arc, and then completed a raid and ambush, and then used the mountains to cover and successfully escaped the pursuit and returned to the station. The whole process took no more than half a month. The mountain infantry company's nearly perfect combat effectiveness in the mountains was even more amazing than the Four-Line Regiment's supervisors imagined!

The Four-Line Regiment was preparing for war and constantly strengthening itself, and the Japanese were not idle either!