Rise From Eight Hundred

In addition to the six infantry battalions, the garrison brigade also has its own direct troops!

The former battalion commander of the security battalion, Lao Hei, led the 1st company of the security battalion to transfer to the garrison brigade to establish the guard battalion, and his military rank was promoted to lieutenant colonel.

The commander of the 1st company of the air defense battalion, Mo Songzi, was promoted to major, and led the original artillery battalion and part of the air defense battalion to transfer to the garrison brigade to establish an artillery battalion, with two companies, heavy artillery company and air defense company.

The establishment of the heavy artillery company and the air defense company is not small, each with nearly 500 soldiers.

The heavy artillery company is equipped with 8 150 howitzers, and 6 150 howitzers will be pulled back to Dakouzidong Town to become heavy weapons to defend the garrison.

The other 14 150 howitzers are exchanged and will be received by the war zone to form a heavy artillery regiment. The stingy old man also promised that these 14 heavy artillery will not be placed elsewhere, and must be placed on the front line of Zhongtiao Mountain.

The air defense company was equipped with a 20mm twin-mounted Suloton machine gun, a quadruple 7mm heavy machine gun, and a 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft gun, taking into account high, medium, and low altitude defense.

Originally, in order to enhance the mobility of the garrison brigade's artillery battalion, Tang Dao planned to distribute the jeeps he brought back to the garrison brigade, but this suggestion was firmly rejected by Lei Xiong and Shangguan Yun.

They knew that the garrison brigade was fighting in a familiar place, while the main force of the four-line regiment had to march more than 2,000 miles. One more vehicle that could tow a 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft gun would provide an additional air defense guarantee for the main force, and there might be a chance to see many brothers again.

The 75mm mountain gun and the 150mm heavy mortar were assigned to the two garrison regiments, and each regiment established an artillery battalion directly under the regiment headquarters.

In fact, the tactics of mountain artillery were weakened in several defensive battles in southern Hebei. However, with the change of tactics of Okamura Koji, the garrison brigade will not only passively defend, but also attack the Japanese army's future bunker trench warfare. The tactical role of mountain artillery, which is not heavy but powerful, is bound to be enhanced.

Therefore, each regiment's mountain artillery company will have 8 Type 41 mountain guns and 4 Bofors mountain guns. The two regiments can reach a total of 24 mountain guns, which is enough to compete with most of the Japanese artillery regiment.

The 150mm heavy mortar has become another important part of the regiment's artillery. Although the range is not far, the power is large enough, which is particularly important for defensive battles. A heavy mortar company will have 12 150mm heavy mortars. A round of salvos can make the Japanese army experience what it means to collapse and crack the earth.

At the infantry battalion level, since the three 8mm howitzers and mortars equipped by the original four infantry battalions will be handed over to the main force of the Four-Line Regiment, the battalion-level artillery support firepower will mainly consist of the captured 70mm infantry guns and 82 mortars, so the infantry battalion-level firepower support company will have 4 70mm infantry guns and 8 82 mortars.

In this way, the garrison brigade will have four levels of heavy firepower support, namely brigade, regiment, battalion and squad. In terms of heavy firepower support alone, a 600-man infantry battalion is far stronger than a Japanese infantry battalion, and a standard regiment of 2,500 people can beat a Japanese infantry regiment. The heavy firepower possessed by the entire garrison brigade can compete with the 1st Division, a Type A division reinforced by 105 howitzers and 150 howitzers.

To put it bluntly, Tang Tuanzuo, who came from the future and was also infected with firepower phobia, is still building a garrison brigade with heavy firepower as the core.

Together with the cavalry battalion, the baggage battalion, the engineer battalion and other attached troops, the garrison brigade can reach 7,500 troops, which is almost the strength of a 10,000-level Type B division. Relying on the various fortifications built in southern Hebei for more than a year and the popular support, the garrison brigade can at least resist the attack of a Type A division.

If it cooperates with the 480,000-man army in southern Hebei and the militia forces that are booming, unless Okamura Koji has enough courage to mobilize more than 4 divisions for large-scale sweeps, there will be no worries in southern Hebei.

A garrison brigade has solved the promotion problem of the ranks and military positions of most of the veterans with military merits in the original Four Lines Regiment, which is also an unexpected surprise for receiving the transfer order this time.

As for the original Four Lines Regiment station in Dakouzidong Town, since the Four Lines Regiment has been transferred, it can no longer be called the Four Lines Regiment Station, but has been changed to the Security Camp Garrison Office of the Three Counties in Southeast Shanxi.

The largest field hospital in North China, which is still under construction, was retained. The field hospital, which can receive more than 4,000 lightly and seriously wounded people, will become the most reliable guarantee for Chinese officers and soldiers in the battlefield of southeastern Shanxi and even Hebei Province.

For this reason, the stingy old man also approved a regular organization for this large field hospital. The hospital level is deputy regiment level, and it is handed over to the headquarters of the 80th Army stationed in southeastern Shanxi for management.

The 80th Army called back and said that in addition to sending an officer at the deputy regiment level to the field hospital as the director of the political department, the rest of the personnel arrangements will be decided by the Four-Line Regiment.

In the minutes of the military meeting of the Four-Line Regiment, Major Tan Tai Mingyue will serve as the director of the Taihang First Military Hospital, Lieutenant Erya will serve as the assistant to the director and deputy company commander of the hospital guard company, and the company commander will be Lieutenant Tu Yunsheng transferred from the 7th Company.

With Tu Yunsheng's military exploits, he could have served as the platoon leader of the main platoon long ago, but he was reluctant to leave his 4th squad, so he was not given a suitable position.

This time, Tang Dao took this opportunity to reject Leng Feng's proposal to promote Tu Yunsheng to the position of platoon leader of the 3rd platoon in the 7th company, and directly promoted him to lieutenant company commander.

The newly established hospital has a large number of personnel, and the guard company has a heavy responsibility. Tang Dao is worried that there is no brave, wise and experienced person to be the company commander.

No matter how reluctant Li Jiujin, the company commander of the 7th company, is to let him go for the sake of the regiment commander and Tan Tai Mingyue.

The hospital guard company with 200 disabled veterans and 800 new recruits may become the largest company-level unit since the establishment of the Four-Line Regiment.

However, although the guard company's personnel are far overstaffed, it does not violate regulations, because most of the guard company's personnel are not counted as formal hospital personnel. Except for several company and platoon commanders, 90% of the personnel are classified as three-county defense camps, and the military pay is also paid by the overseas company that donated funds to build the hospital.

This can be regarded as Tang Dao exploring a new sequence of combat personnel against Japan, hired combat.

At the same time, under the suggestion of Ye Chenghuan, the hospital also opened up a new function, setting up a military medical school inside the hospital to train doctors and nurses needed for the war.

The white doctor supported by the International Red Cross served as the dean of the military medical training school and formulated a training course for students. The doctor's study period is two years and the nurse's study period is eight months.

But Ye Chenghuan may not know that it was his suggestion that made this military medical school established inside the field hospital develop into the largest military medical school in North China after several years, and will become China's largest military medical university in the future.

Thousands of military doctors and nurses walked out from here and rushed to various battlefields in North China and even the whole of China, and many of them walked into the ice field.

Although it will move to a big city in the future for the needs of development, the old campus with an area of ​​only 10 acres in the depths of Taihang Mountains has been preserved.

The stone wall with Taihang stone as the base standing in front of the wooden school gate is engraved with a sentence and signature left by every graduate when they left their alma mater during the war. Many of their names have been framed by the school.

The densely packed boxes make people with trypophobia feel a kind of trembling, but in fact, it is an impulse that everyone will have.

During the war, the school trained more than 3,300 doctors and nurses, and more than one-third of them died!

This huge rock that fell here in ancient times has become the holy place of the Military Medical University. Every graduating class will come here when they leave their alma mater to report to the army, and they will follow the example of their predecessors, carve a sentence here, and solemnly sign their names.

The spiritual inheritance of Chinese soldiers will never be cut off!

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The arsenal that was originally under the Ordnance Department of the Four-line Regiment was also renamed the Taihang Arsenal, and will be transferred to the 80th Army Group as a whole. Lieutenant Colonel Tan Taiyunshu, the former director of the Ordnance Department of the Four-line Regiment, will become the first director of the Taihang Arsenal, and Teacher Xiao He will be the deputy director and chief engineer.

The security work of the military factory will be handed over to the 80th Army Group.

It is said that after the deputy commander-in-chief of the 80th Army Group received the telegram from the Four-line Regiment, he was stunned for a long time before smiling.

Tang Tuanzuo is really good at transplanting. No one can refuse such a medium-sized arsenal that can produce thousands of various guns and 250,000 rounds of bullets per month, and even has sufficient research and development capabilities. The 80th Army, which lacks these, is even less likely to refuse.

For this precious arsenal, let alone sending a battalion, even a regiment is worth it.

That is exactly what Tang Tuanzuo wants. Tang Tuanzuo does not need to use a single person or a single gun to ensure the safety of the arsenal. In the past, the 80th Army could pry some railroad tracks and rob some Japanese military supplies to the Four-Line Regiment in exchange for weapons. Now, it’s good that they are the fathers themselves, and all kinds of raw materials for manufacturing have to be supplied by themselves.

Moreover, not to mention their troubles and efforts, if the Four-Line Regiment members who stayed in southeastern Shanxi and southern Hebei said that they needed ammunition and weapons replenishment, how could the arsenal not provide them?

Not to mention that the scientific research, technology, production, and management personnel of the arsenal were all old comrades of the Four-Line Regiment, even the 80th Army itself could not say no!

To put it bluntly, the Four-Line Regiment successfully stripped off a "burden" by means of the transfer order, but what it should have obtained from it was not reduced at all. You can tell whether Tang Tuanzuo played this trick well or not.

Of course, Tang Tuanzuo did not say that he would abandon the arsenal. The arsenal was assigned to the 80th Army, but the military pay was still paid according to the previously established standards, and was also borne by the overseas Chinese company.

It was not that the 80th Army could not afford the military pay, but that they really had no money. Even the division commander only had five French currency a month. Cheng Da, a major general brigade commander, wanted to treat guests and saved two months of silver. Let them bear the military pay. Tang Dao was worried that the workers who were used to high salaries in the arsenal would "rebel".

This has nothing to do with morality, but the true human nature. No matter how lofty the reason is, and no matter how big the pie the boss draws, the monthly salary has dropped from 10,000 to 500. Look, there are still people working!

Finally, there is the Sanxian Security Battalion, which is also the unit with the largest number of staff left in the Four-Line Regiment in Southeast Shanxi.

The security battalion, which used to be responsible for the security of the garrison, now has to take on the task of fighting the Japanese army in southeastern Shanxi, and its establishment has also expanded from 3,000 to 4,000 people.

However, Captain Laohei took away 800 elite soldiers, so the security battalion will select 1,000 recruits from the new recruits trained in the past six months, and select another 800 from the larger militia system in southern Hebei.

Many people are speculating about who the chief of the security battalion is. After all, this is a military chief who commands 4,000 people. Ability, prestige, and the trust of Tang Tuanzuo are indispensable.

Gu Xishui and Lu Sanjiang, two rising stars, have the highest voices. One is the company commander of the mountain infantry company, and the other is the company commander of the reconnaissance company. The two are trusted by Tang Dao and are tough and brave. They are the most outstanding young officers of the Four Lines Regiment.

In the end, the candidate was Wei Donglai, the former commander of the 2nd Company of the 1st Battalion!

No one said anything when the candidate was announced. Wei Donglai was originally a major in the army and was very capable. The 2nd Company under his command was the main force of the 1st Battalion and had made many military achievements.

It is called a defense battalion, but in fact, it is not much different from an infantry regiment. Except that there are fewer veterans and the combat effectiveness is not as good as the main force of the regiment, the firepower configuration is not less. After a period of training, I believe that the combat effectiveness will not be much worse than that of two garrison regiments.

If the 6 150 heavy artillery that will be transferred to Dakouzidong Town are added, if it relies on defense alone, it will never lose to a brigade.

This is just the strength of a single defense battalion. If the field hospital protection company and a reinforced battalion stationed in the military factory by the 80th Army are added, the 108th Division stationed in Licheng, Changzhi and other places may not be able to get anything good even if all its troops are used to attack.

These are roughly the personnel arrangements and establishments left in the battlefield of North China, and the main force of the Four-Line Regiment, which is about to go thousands of miles away, can be said to be the best.

The number of chief officers in the regiment has not decreased, but the personnel have changed slightly. The regiment commander Tang Dao and the deputy regiment commander Ye Chenghuan are also the director of the political department, which basically clarifies their position as the second-in-command of the military. The chief of staff is Lieutenant Colonel Leng Feng, and the director of the quartermaster department is still Lieutenant Colonel Zhuang Shisan.

There are slight changes in the directly affiliated units. Pang Dahai is the battalion commander of the artillery battalion, Cheng Tieshou is the battalion commander of the air defense battalion, and the former deputy battalion commander of the security battalion Yang Xiaoshan is changed to the battalion commander of the special service battalion, which is under the jurisdiction of the communication company, medical brigade, tank company, guard company, etc.; Bai Sheng's direct engineering company is changed to the engineering battalion, and the staff establishment is expanded from more than 300 people to 500 people.

Putting aside the original establishment, the new tank company under the special service battalion can be regarded as the current more powerful branch of the Four-Line Regiment.

The 40 TKS modified tanks imported by the Sihang Regiment through Krupp Company were mainly used to tow artillery in the Battle of Zishan, because it was a defensive battle and most of the battlefields were steep mountains. They were not used for battlefield breakthroughs.

This can be regarded as not exposing this secret weapon to the Japanese army.

According to Lei Xiong, none of the 40 small tanks with 20mm machine guns and 7mm heavy machine guns were left in the security brigade, and all were taken away by the main force of the regiment. However, Tang Dao still considered the large-scale fierce battles that might break out in the North China battlefield and left 12 tanks for the security brigade. Even if they were not used for attacking, they could be used to tow large-scale guys such as 40mm anti-aircraft guns and 150 heavy guns.

The 28 modified TKS small tanks with 20mm machine guns and 7mm heavy machine guns formed the first large-scale tank company of the Sihang Regiment. Deng Guihai, who had been a tank instructor for two years and trained 150 tank soldiers, served as the first company commander of the tank company.

The promise made by Tang Tuanzuo to him to become a tank platoon leader in the battle of Jindong was finally fulfilled two years later.

11 armed assault jeeps were assigned to the guard company, which became the most mobile unit directly under the regiment, and could carry an elite infantry platoon to a slightly distant battlefield at any time.

It can be said that the current special service battalion has the combat effectiveness of any main infantry battalion, and Yang Xiaoshan, who has been constantly training in various positions during the three years of fighting, finally took up this important position just before the Sihang Regiment rushed to another important battlefield, becoming one of the best young officers.

The regiment still has 4 infantry battalions under its jurisdiction, and Chief of Staff Leng Feng is also the commander of the first battalion, which has 3 infantry companies and artillery companies under its jurisdiction. The first battalion is mainly composed of the original 2nd Company of the 1st Battalion, a part of the 4th Company of the 2nd Battalion, and the original battalion artillery company, and some new recruits are transferred.

Zhao Daqiang served as the battalion commander of the 2nd Battalion, with the same organization as the 1st Battalion. The personnel mainly consisted of the 1st Company of the original 1st Battalion, part of the 4th Company of the 2nd Battalion and the artillery company, and some new recruits were transferred.

Li Jiujin served as the battalion commander of the 3rd Battalion, with the same organization as the 1st Battalion, and the personnel mainly consisted of the original 3rd Battalion who were not transferred.

Cai Dadao served as the battalion commander of the 4th Battalion, with the same organization as the 1st Battalion, and the personnel consisted of the original 5th Company of the 2nd Battalion, the original Arsenal Protection Company, and the original 4th Battalion Artillery Company.

Although Major Qian Dazhu did not become the leader of the 1st Battalion this time, everyone knew his position in Tang Dao's heart. He served as the deputy battalion commander of the 1st Battalion and concurrently served as the company commander of the 1st Company, becoming the top sharp knife of the entire regiment.

So far, Tang Dao's confidants and beloved generals have basically entered the core layer of the Four-Line Regiment, most of whom are about the same age as Tang Dao, younger and more energetic.

The organization of each company has been compressed, and the total strength of each of the 4 infantry battalions is less than 900 people, which is about the same as the strength of an infantry battalion of the Japanese army.

The whole regiment has about 5,600 people. It's okay to have a few hundred more people. After all, in this era, which infantry regiment or division doesn't have civilians and young men to help transport supplies?

So far, the general framework of the personnel establishment of the Four-line Regiment after the division has been finalized.

In the next week, each unit began to gather personnel and carry out more detailed personnel establishment and weapons and equipment implementation work.

One evening 7 days later, the representative of the receiving arsenal sent by the 80th Army arrived at the Four-line Regiment's station in Dakouzidong Town.

That was an old friend of the Four-line Regiment, Brigade Commander Cheng.

However, his mission to the Four-line Regiment's station this time was more than that. He was entrusted by the leaders of the headquarters to develop a party member who was extremely important to the 80th Army and the Four-line Regiment.