Rise From Eight Hundred

Although the war zone headquarters is only 200 kilometers away from the Dakouzidong station, the return time is longer than that of a group of people crossing two provinces.

The mountain road is rugged and in the war zone, the speed of the convoy is much slower than that of Sichuan and Shaanxi.

Finally, before sunset on the second day after crossing the Yellow River, the convoy met a cavalry company that came to greet them. Four hours later, under the escort of hundreds of cavalrymen, Tang Dao stepped into the gate of the station.

"Brothers, wait a moment, let me go to see my wife and children and then come back to drink and chat with the brothers!" Tang Dao met Lei Xiong and a group of battalion and company commanders who had been waiting for him at the gate of the station for half a day. After saluting each other, he ran towards his own cabin after saying a word.

Everyone laughed and didn't care about Tang Tuanzuo's behavior of "abandoning his brothers". This is Tang Tuanzuo's true nature!

The regiment headquarters had obviously increased the security of the senior officers' residential area. Not only were there more sentries, but after walking into the path leading to his own wooden house, Tang Dao clearly felt that at least three groups of secret sentries were looking at him.

According to this intensity of security, I'm afraid that no less than 30 secret sentries were deployed in this area alone. Although it was a bit laborious, Tang Dao could still feel the painstaking efforts of his brothers.

Walking to the gate of the courtyard and opening the small wooden door, Tang Dao tried his best to make his steps lighter, and then saw the door of the wooden house being pushed open. Madam Yue, no, it should be Madam Leng now, walked out of the door with a pile of cloth.

First, Tang Dao was shocked when he saw it.

Tang Dao did send a telegram before leaving the mountain city. It was estimated that he would return around the 8th. This was only the 6th day after sending the telegram. Seeing that he was dusty, it was obvious that he had saved nearly two days by traveling day and night.

No one came to inform Tan Tai Mingyue, so it was probably to give her a surprise.

As a person who has experienced it, Mrs. Leng admires men like Tang Dao very much. He talks about defending the country every day, but he doesn't care about his wife and children. Isn't that another kind of cold-bloodedness and selfishness?

Seeing Tang Dao's light footsteps, Mrs. Leng smiled slightly: "The child is asleep and won't wake up easily. You, as a father, don't have to act like you are facing a great enemy. I will take these diapers back to wash and dry them and bring them back tomorrow."

"Thank you for your trouble, sister-in-law. I will treat your family to dinner tomorrow!" Tang Dao hurriedly thanked in a low voice.

"Sister, is Mingjing here? Tell him that I want to take Shanhe to sleep. If there is anything, we will talk tomorrow." Tan Tai Mingyue in the room heard the movement at the door and shouted softly.

Mrs. Leng smiled and looked at a certain regiment commander who surprised his wife, and turned to leave.

Tang Dao walked into the room gently, took off his helmet, and took off his upper military uniform at the same time, and then walked into the bedroom.

"Mingjing, you have..." Tan Tai Mingyue, who was half lying on the bed, turned around with a rather unhappy look on her face.

Tang Shanhe, the little guy, had been crying and making a fuss for some reason today. It took a long time to coax him to sleep. If this unreliable uncle woke him up, Tan Tai Mingyue, who was also a new mother, felt that she must be crazy, and her tone would naturally not be good.

As soon as she turned around, she saw her husband standing in front of her with an apologetic face. Tan Tai Mingyue was stunned for a moment.

"Why did you arrive two days in advance? You must have worked hard on the way! Are you hungry? I'll go cook you a bowl of noodles." Tan Tai Mingyue looked at her husband in surprise and joy.

"Mingyue, I'm sorry!" Tang Dao looked at his wife's tired face, and his heart couldn't help but hurt. He gently hugged Tan Tai Mingyue who was sitting up.

"You and I are husband and wife, so why should we be sorry for so many things? Shanhe is your son, not my son. It is my responsibility as a mother to give birth to him and raise him." Tan Tai Mingyue felt her husband's body temperature, her heart full of sweetness.

With her intelligence, how could she not know that her husband returned two days earlier, and she didn't know how many nights he had traveled under the stars and the moon.

The couple hugged each other and felt each other's body temperature. The little baby in the swaddling clothes seemed to feel that he was ignored by his parents who showed off their love. He frowned and moved his little fist.

"You, as a father, haven't held our son yet! Look, he's not happy." Tan Tai Mingyue turned her head when she heard the noise, and saw the baby's frowning eyebrows in his sleep, and couldn't help laughing.

"Yes, yes, I came to hold my silly son, this is too outrageous, look how tired my wife is, and I'm thin." Tang Dao nodded repeatedly and moved his head closer.

"Nonsense, our son is not stupid, he will inherit his father's bravery and wisdom." Tan Tai Ming Yue pretended to be angry and gently patted her husband, then looked down at the baby and said softly: "I said this little guy wouldn't sleep today no matter how I coaxed him. It turns out that he sensed that his father was coming back. You want to see your father, right? Little Shanhe!"

Tang Dao was a father for the first time in his past and present lives. He didn't know what it felt like to be a father, but when he carefully and somewhat helplessly held the fragile little guy in his hands, like holding an extremely precious porcelain, afraid that his rough hands would stab him, Tang Dao finally confirmed that this was his son.

The baby, who was born 8 days ago, looked very cute. Although he was white and chubby, his appearance already vaguely had the shadow of his parents.

In terms of face shape, both Tang Dao and Tan Tai Ming Yue have square faces, but Tang Dao tends to be tough, while Tan Tai Ming Yue is more heroic and bright, and her eyebrows and eyes are the kind of beauty that can only be described in the poem "water is like the horizontal eye waves, mountains are like the gathered brow peaks".

The baby doesn't have many eyebrows and his eyes are closed, but there is a shadow of his mother between his eyebrows. He will definitely be more handsome than his father when he grows up.

Perhaps it was because he was held in his father's hands and could not smell his mother's scent. The little baby's little hands exposed outside the swaddling clothes danced gently. Tang Dao looked interesting and put his fingers in it, being held by the little hands like this. .

The little hands were soft and small, and an indescribable feeling poured into Tang Dao's chest, and Tang Dao's eyes suddenly became moist.

This is his son!

Seeing that her husband, who was usually cheerful and even a little unconventional, but ruthless on the battlefield, turned out to be as tender as water, Tantai Mingyue felt warm in her heart and gently hugged her husband's waist.

With his beloved wife by his side and his baby in his arms, this may be one of the rare happy moments in Tang Dao's life. Looking at the baby's delicate little face, Tang Dao couldn't help it any longer and leaned forward to kiss his face gently. The stubble that hadn't been shaved for a week pricked the child's face.

Tang Shanhe, who was stung by the pain, opened his eyes suddenly and burst into heart-wrenching tears. Tang Dao was startled, and the sweat on his forehead started to fall: "What's going on, what's going on! "

Tang Dao dared to say that this was an unprecedented predicament for him. Even when he crossed the Songhu battlefield and found himself in a desperate situation that was almost certain to die, he was never as clueless as he was now.

Why is my son crying? How can I stop him from crying? The new dad is really confused!

"I couldn't sleep well because I was pricked by your beard! What else could it be? Maybe it's because I don't like being held by you as my father!" Tantai Mingyue couldn't help but feel a little funny when she saw her husband holding his crying son at a loss. , opened his arms to take the child, and shook it gently.

Tang Shanhe, who smelled his mother's scent again, regained a sense of security, and his wailing voice became much quieter. Within a few dozen seconds, he fell asleep again.

"This little guy scared me to the point of sweating!" Tang Dao breathed a sigh of relief and lowered his voice as he watched his wife put the child on the bed, patting and comforting him gently. "Mingyue, you go to bed first. You don't have to wait for me. The military meeting tonight may be held very late."

"Is there a new mission? Then go, I'll wait for you, just in time to read Mr. Lu Xun's articles!" Tantai Mingyue knew Tang Dao so well, and one look at his expression knew that it must be a military mission promulgated by the theater level. , otherwise, with the Tang Dao's characteristic of not changing color despite being overwhelmed by the mountains, he would never have held a military meeting overnight as soon as he came back.

"The Four Lines Regiment will be transferred from the Second War Zone to fight in the Fifth War Zone. The Dakouzidong garrison will be retained, and the Zishan Defense Zone will be retained. Some of the main forces of our regiment will still be in southeastern Shanxi and southern Hebei. This has become a mature base for defense. The measures and mass base are very good, there won't be any big problems in terms of safety, and all the military family members will stay here, you must be mentally prepared," Tang Dao took a deep breath and said briefly to his wife.

Tantai Mingyue's expression changed. Of course she knew what Tang Dao meant, which was that he hoped that she would continue to stay in the southeastern Shanxi Province with her children, and the husband and wife would be separated from each other from now on.

Seeing the depression in his wife's eyes, Tang Dao felt pain in his heart, but he had nothing to do. He was still small in the face of the cruel war. For the safety of his children, leaving his wife and children in southeastern Shanxi was his only choice at the moment.

After gently hugging the sad Tantai Mingyue, and reaching out to touch the delicate little face of Tang Shanhe who was sleeping again, Tang Dao turned around and went out, picked up his military uniform and helmet and left home.

Here, he is a husband and a father, but when he walks out of the house, he is a commander in charge of tens of thousands of officers and soldiers. In the huge cave dug out of the mountain three miles away, his closest comrades are waiting for him.

All members of the Four Lines Regiment Headquarters except Gong Shaoxun were present. Director of the Political Department Ye Chenghuan and Chief of Staff Shangguan Yun, who were originally in Zishan, also returned to their base the day before yesterday after receiving the news that Tang Dao was returning from the mountain city.

Lei Xiong, Ye Chenghuan, Shangguan Yun, Zhuang Shisan, as well as the two infantry battalion commanders Guo Shouzhi and Leng Feng, the artillery battalion commander Pang Panghai, the air defense battalion commander Cheng Tieshou, the guard battalion deputy battalion commander Yang Xiaoshan and all the people stationed at the station. The infantry company commanders were all waiting in the combat conference room.

It was a great joy for the regiment to come back safe and sound, but after Tang Dao and the cavalry company met, he asked the cavalry to notify the regiment headquarters to convene a military meeting of all company commanders and above at the station. These soldiers who were familiar with Tang Dao's temperament immediately knew that they had another big task. .

Originally, for these iron-blooded soldiers who had seen strong winds and waves, they had all fought against several Japanese Class A divisions. What other military tasks could scare them? The atmosphere of the military meeting of the Four Corps has always been very active.

But obviously this time Tang Tuanzuo's solemnity was slightly different from the past. Even Li Jiujin, who loved making jokes, became a little silent. In the half hour waiting for Tang Dao to go home to visit his wife and children, this guy With Cai Dadao, one by one and one by one, we finished half a pack of cigarettes. Others also smoked less, and the air in the entire conference room was blue.

Tang Dao, who strode into the conference room, almost fell over.

Seeing Tang Dao walking in, everyone stood up and saluted! The Tang knife was still intact, and he glanced around with a smile on his face: "What's going on today? The atmosphere is a bit heavy! Captain Jiujin, you didn't follow my cigarette, why are you willing to throw cigarette butts all over the floor? Is it the food and fodder provided by Captain Dadao?"

"The regiment commander must be so knowledgeable about things! Lao Li is not smoking his own cigarettes anyway. The key is that he just caught me, the regiment commander. If you come a little later, don't tell me. It’s so hairy that even Old Li would cut it off,” Cai Dadao said with a big grin.

The whole audience burst into laughter, and the atmosphere instantly became lively.

"Okay, my regiment has a new mission, but it's nothing big. I haven't been here for the past few months. Although there are telegram exchanges, I want to hear what the newly appointed Okamura Koji has done." Tang Dao waved his hand and sat down first.

It can be regarded as setting the tone of the meeting first. First listen to the reports of various departments in recent months, and then issue orders. Seeing that Tang Dao is not particularly concerned, everyone's hanging hearts are completely put down.

Tang Dao left southeastern Shanxi in May. It is now early September. In almost 4 months, there has been no new changes in the war in North China.

Okamura Koji, the newly appointed commander of the Japanese North China Front, has seemed too calm in the past few months. The Japanese army on the Zhongtiao Mountain front has launched an attack of no more than 50,000 people. The Chinese side dispatched two army groups with a total of about 100,000 people to fight the enemy. The entire battle lasted less than 10 days and ended. The casualties on both sides were not large. The Chinese side counted about 7,000 people.

The Japanese army in the Taihang Mountains in southeastern Shanxi Province tightly guarded the city and traffic lines, and never gathered troops to carry out any mopping-up operations. They played the routine of keeping out of each other's way with the Chinese army in the Taihang Mountains. Seeing that the Japanese were so honest, the Chinese army in southeastern Shanxi Province was not willing to do it.

The 80th Army launched more than 30 attacks on the traffic lines in succession. The Japanese army's baggage convoys were not escorted by an infantry battalion, and basically dared not pass. The Handan-Changzhi Highway became a dead end for the Japanese baggage soldiers. Faced with this completely provocative attack, the 108th and 109th divisions of the Japanese army actually chose to hang up the banner of exemption from war and did not make a decent counterattack.

In the three main bases of southern Hebei, northern Hebei, and eastern Hebei, the Japanese army first dug deep trenches around the cities and built a group of bunkers. It seems that they were more defensive than offensive.

"Okamura Koji is a coward. He has been in office for almost half a year, and he is either building bunkers or on the way to building bunkers. If he has the ability, I think he can build bunkers all over North China." Cai Dadao made a summary after Shangguan Yun reported to Tang Dao.

The whole audience laughed again.

More than 80% of the officers of the Four Lines Regiment did not take the former commander of the 11th Army of the Japanese Army seriously.

Only Tang Dao and a few others did not laugh.

"Don't underestimate Okamura Koji. He is stabilizing the morale of the army and doing experiments. Your guess, Captain Dadao, is probably exactly what Okamura Koji envisioned." Tang Dao shook his head.

In the past, Duo Tianjun invented the famous cage tactics. The specific operation was: first send troops to seize several tactical points (such as county towns, important villages and towns, and transportation hubs), and then build strongholds there. On the periphery of each stronghold, multiple satellite-shaped artillery towers were built at a certain distance (500 meters or 1000 meters), and then roads as dense as spider webs were built between each stronghold and artillery tower to form several ring lines. Once a certain artillery tower was attacked, the adjacent artillery towers and strongholds would immediately rush to reinforce.

In order to implement this "cage policy", the Japanese invaders repaired and built 2,347 kilometers of railways and 15,600 kilometers of roads within one year, and built 2,479 artillery towers and strongholds, thus gradually dividing the anti-Japanese bases behind enemy lines such as Jin-Cha-Ji into small pieces that were not connected to each other, in an attempt to make the 80th Army lose its mobility due to reduced room for maneuver, until it was eliminated or withdrawn.

In order to break this "cage", the 80th Army concentrated more than 200,000 troops to launch the Hundred Regiments Campaign on the land of North China, removing the Zhengtai Railway and other transportation lines and the artillery towers and strongholds along the line one by one, and annihilating more than 25,000 Japanese and puppet troops.

Duo Tianjun was dismissed because of his tactical failure. His successor, Okamura Koji, did not overturn this seemingly failed tactic, but instead made a new upgraded version of the "iron wall encirclement" tactic on this basis.

To put it bluntly, it was to build more bunker groups. In less than a year, more than 7,700 bunkers were newly built.

What's more cruel is that this person divided various parts of North China into "security areas" (i.e. enemy-occupied areas), "quasi-security areas" (i.e. guerrilla areas fought for by the enemy and us), and "non-security areas" (i.e. anti-Japanese bases behind enemy lines), and implemented the policies of "clearing the countryside", "nibbling", and "sweeping" respectively; especially the "big sweep" of "stationing and clearing" the anti-Japanese bases, and implemented the extremely brutal "three-light" policy of burning, killing, and looting.

Under this tactic, the 80th Army's base area shrank greatly and suffered huge losses. The entire North China land became a hell on earth where "looking up, you can see guard towers, stepping onto the road, there is no village without filial piety, and there are smoke everywhere".

In terms of insidiousness and cunning, Okamura Koji is definitely the most cunning commander of the Japanese North China Front Army. You can be fearless of him, but even Tang Dao must not underestimate him, otherwise you will pay a heavy price.

The whole audience was silent.

"If we and the 80th Army had no artillery, this kind of turtle shells everywhere would really be a trouble, but now! As long as the old devil Okamura Koji has money to repair it, we will bomb him as much as he builds, and see whether his bunkers are more expensive or our shells are more expensive." Tang Dao said again.

If Okamura Koji still uses the same tricks as in the past, the current Four-line Regiment and the 80th Army will not be afraid.

The 80th Army was helpless because of Okamura Koji, because the entire army only had a small number of mountain artillery, not even many 82 mortars, so naturally it could not do anything with the bunkers and artillery towers built with reinforced concrete.

And now, not to mention the equipment of the Four-line Regiment, the various units of the Eighth Army have captured 92 infantry guns and 37mm anti-tank guns eliminated by the Four-line Regiment. They are all hard guys that can penetrate steel plates. If they approach 200 meters of artillery fire, the Japanese army will be like a toad on a frog with only the bunkers. They are ugly but also playful!

Really, the elite of the Eighth Army can make the Japanese infantry squad in the bunker pose in dozens of fancy postures.

Everyone is happy again!

"I will read a transfer order." Tang Dao stood up and took out the transfer order with the seal of the Ministry of Military Affairs and read it out.

Changing the war zone? The officers of the Four-line Regiment looked at each other and felt that it was no big deal.

For these soldiers, whether in North China, Central China or South China, isn't it just a change of place to fight the devils?

But the next sentence of Tang Tuanzuo made the whole audience quiet, and the atmosphere suddenly became solemn.

"According to the transfer order of the Ministry of Military Affairs, the number of troops that can depart for the Fifth War Zone of our Four-Line Regiment is 5,060, so our regiment needs to send a part of its troops to stay in southeastern Shanxi!" Tang Dao's voice rang out in the conference room.

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