Rise From Eight Hundred

The topic of the military meeting of the Four-Line Regiment was very important: sending troops to Licheng!

Except for Li Jiujin and other infantry company commanders who had heard the news and were relatively calm, most people's faces became serious when they heard the topic announced by Tang Dao. They smoked faster and drank more water.

This is a very normal phenomenon.

After all, the Four-Line Regiment had just arrived in the Taihang Mountains and had not figured out everything yet! Even the garrison had just been settled, and they started to fight such a big battle, and it was a tough battle that the Four-Line Regiment had never had before. Anyone would be nervous.

Those who could attend the meeting were at least company-level cadres, and they had hundreds of people under them. It was not like the past when there were only a few brothers. If the leader shouted, they would risk their lives as soon as their blood got excited. Now if they got angry, it would be more than a hundred lives, right?

However, soon, they didn't have to worry.

"Don't look so heavy, everyone. The regiment called everyone here not to discuss whether to attack Licheng County, but how to attack!" Tang Tuanzuo looked around and set the main tone for the meeting.

Now it's good, the people who were drinking water and smoking were not as frequent as before. After a short period of silence, more officers raised their hands to speak.

This is the temperament of the soldiers of the Sihang Regiment now. They may not all have iron ambitions. Facing sudden battles, they will also be afraid and scared, but when their commander has set a goal, they will throw away the burden and do their best to complete it!

Of course, Tang Dao is not completely a one-man show. Before holding this military meeting, he had communicated with his three deputies separately.

Lei Xiong, as always, chose to support!

This warrior-type army lieutenant colonel unreservedly supported Tang Dao, who came from behind, just like when he was trapped alone in the Sihang Warehouse.

Tang Dao even knew from his eyes that he was more eager to fight this battle than himself!

In fact, Jindong is only one step away from his hometown of Shaanxi Province.

Half of Shanxi Province has been lost. If the huge barrier of Taihang Mountain is lost, the Japanese army will free up troops. Relying on the Yellow River alone, Shaanxi Province cannot be safe.

Having traveled through half of China's battlefields, Lei Xiong has seen too much misery. Under the flames of war, life is as cheap as ants. Those who were slaughtered by the Japanese army, those who died of starvation on the road due to fleeing, and those who died of freezing in the wilderness due to insufficient clothing, even the strongest soldiers can't bear to watch!

How can Lei Xiong accept that his hometown elders and blood relatives have suffered such a tragic fate?

"If I lose Jindong, I will return to my hometown and stay with my wife and children!" This is a sincere word that Lei Xiong said when he and Tang Dao were chatting during the night patrol one night after arriving at the garrison.

Soldiers are also human beings. If the country is really destroyed and the family is ruined, as hard as Lei Xiong, he will choose to die with his wife and children!

"Don't worry, you won't have this opportunity." Tang Dao remembered that he answered him with a smile at that time.

In the past, the 80th Army did not lose the eastern part of Shanxi. Instead, it developed hundreds of thousands of troops based on this mountainous area and marched into several provinces such as Shanxi, Chahar, Hebei, Shandong, Henan, and Jiangsu. In the vast rural areas that the Japanese army could not control, it developed into an anti-Japanese base with an area of ​​one million square kilometers and a population of over 100 million. Japan did not really occupy these lands until its defeat. The so-called Japanese-occupied areas actually only had some cities, and the town level was basically OVER.

Shaanxi Province is the most important grain and cotton producing area in northwest China, and the Japanese did not even touch a hair until their defeat.

After listening to Tang Dao's description of the background and prospects of this battle, Gong Shaoxun also readily expressed his support.

He is a very wise soldier. Even though he knows that he is just a lone existence in the four-member group of the regiment, whenever Tang Dao makes a decision, even if he opposes it, it is a situation of three to one, but he still chooses to listen to his heart and support the decision he thinks is correct. This is also what Tang Dao appreciates most about him.

What Tang Dao needs is not a tool who obeys his orders, but a comrade who can not only fight to the death under his orders, but also put forward his own opinions at certain times to make up for his shortcomings.

Tang Dao has never looked down on the people of this era because he came from the future and can grasp the pulse of history. On the contrary, the more he contacts with them, the more he knows how excellent these people are. If he was born in this era, he would probably die before he grew up.

Compared with Gong Shaoxun, Zhuang Shisan is much more direct, and said with a wry smile: "Commander, you also know that I am the chief of staff because of the Songjiang Security Corps and your willingness to disdain. To put it bluntly, with my level, even if I am asked to lead an infantry company, it is estimated that it will be difficult! You said that I can't make more suggestions for the battle of Licheng, but I can guarantee that I will do my best to supply all kinds of materials needed by the participating units, and I will also ensure that the wounded are treated well, so that the brothers in each battalion and company can have no worries!"

"That's what I want!" Tang Dao smiled and patted Zhuang Shisan on the shoulder.

Zhuang Shisan himself probably didn't know that Tang Dao's satisfaction with his officers ranked him at least in the top five as the chief of staff of the regiment!

In terms of fighting, as Zhuang Shisan himself said, Tang Dao would rather use Bai Sheng, the engineer company commander, than let him lead an infantry company to fight, even though he performed well in the peripheral battles during the Battle of Songjiang, but that only showed that his will was still strong and the Japanese army was too unexpected and lucky enough.

But Zhuang Shisan was self-aware enough to know his strengths and weaknesses, and maximize his strengths.

Just like the five days of garrison construction, this person was responsible for all material and personnel deployment, food and accommodation for the 3,000 people of the Four-Line Regiment plus more than 4,000 people who came to help, which was definitely an extremely complicated task, but in his hands, everything became well organized, and basically no friendly troops found Tang Dao to report because of food and accommodation problems, which also allowed Tang Dao to take a cavalry squad and three geography students to patrol the terrain around the garrison covering an area of ​​tens of square kilometers.

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In his past and present lives, Tang Dao was also here for the first time. As a commander, if he was not familiar with the terrain and geographical environment of the area he was in, he would definitely not be qualified!

The three geography students drew a detailed map of the Four-Line Regiment garrison overnight based on the Licheng County map reproduced from the 683 Brigade Headquarters and combined with the terrain visited on the spot.

In addition, the 300-person student company was also divided before entering the garrison. About 40 people chose to stay true to their original aspirations and join the 921st Division. More than 90% of them were liberal arts students, and the remaining 250 people, led by Teacher Xiao He, expressed their willingness to stay in the Four-Line Regiment.

However, this is not because of the personal charm of a certain regiment commander, but because the prospects described by Tang Tuanzuo were too good. What about building a thermal power plant! Building a military factory to develop rifles, machine guns and even artillery! It is also necessary to develop iron ore, smelt steel and so on. Anyway, as long as you stay, no matter how bad you are, you are an engineer. You don’t have to carry a gun to the front line, and you can still help fight the devils.

The reason why the proud children of heaven want to join the army is more because they are excited after seeing the misery of the war. When they gradually calm down, they will find that Tang Dao’s words are not only reasonable but also speak to their hearts.

In the Patriotic War, if victory only requires sacrifice, then China can almost win!

The population recorded by the government alone is 400 million, and with those who are destined to be missed, it may be as high as 55,000. With such a huge population base, even if only 1% is willing to sacrifice, what kind of war can't be won?

Unfortunately, war is not an examination room, and it is not entirely based on data, otherwise the Japanese would not have gambled so hard.

War requires soldiers who dare to die, and also requires support from the economy, industry, and mineral resources. It is an extremely complex and huge system.

And what they are most proud of is the knowledge they learned in China's highest institution that can change all this. If they can make stronger weapons and more bullets, they can easily kill a hundred devils, and if they are soldiers, even if they die, they may not be able to kill ten devils!

Tang Dao used such a simple truth to change the once extremely stubborn ideas of these once passionate and proud sons of heaven.

Of course, what the Four Lines Group has done these days also gives Tang Dao enough confidence to tell them that you are responsible for making guns and cannons, and we will do the killing of devils!

However, Tang Dao did not stop the liberal arts students from joining the 921st Division. Although these guys were scholars, their passionate and enthusiastic writings were quite inspiring, and would be of great help to the 921st Division in terms of publicity, and they were placed in the right position.

As for the Four-Line Regiment, it was enough to have the 921st Division as a big and thick leg to call for it in front, and the Four-Line Regiment must be low-key.

If the army expanded too quickly and equipped with new weapons, it would completely attract the attention of the Japanese headquarters, and that would be terrible. Seven or eight divisions would come around with great fanfare, and not to mention the Four-Line Regiment, the Four-Line Army would be in a dilemma!

Tang Dao and the Four-Line Regiment only needed to grow slowly, and when the military factory produced decent weapons, even if there were not many soldiers, they would still be able to beat the Japanese heart and lungs.

If the entire Patriotic War is likened to a patient, and the Japanese who have the upper hand are the main body of this patient, then Tang Dao, who knows the pulse of the war well, is determined to turn himself and the Four Lines into influenza viruses, which makes the human body feel uncomfortable, but does not need to attract too much attention, quietly eroding this body, and finally all the virus cells work together to kill the patient directly, completely ending the war.

And if it turns into a "cancer cell" at the beginning, then the "patient" will naturally launch a desperate counterattack, and would rather destroy this terrifying guy than lose both sides. Isn't this what Western medicine will do when dealing with this disease in the future? It is very common to kill one thousand enemies and lose two thousand and five of your own.

I'm getting off topic. Chief of Staff Zhuang is extremely efficient at work. Not only is the construction of the garrison done well, but even in such a busy five days, he also took time to recruit two hundred young and strong people from the surrounding mountain villages to form a transport team and a stretcher team. Moreover, all these two hundred people are assigned to Tan Tai Mingyue's medical team, which completely solves Tan Tai Mingyue's worries.

You know, Tan Tai Ming Yue had approached Tang Dao five or six times to tell him about the shortage of medical and stretcher teams, especially during the ambush of the Japanese army on the south bank of the Mi River, when the medical team was divided into four parts to follow the frontline officers and soldiers.

Usually, the medical team of more than 100 people seems to have a lot of personnel, but after this division, the manpower is stretched to the limit. If the Japanese army had not been pressed to the ground from the beginning, resulting in a low casualty rate, if both sides were caught in a bitter battle, I don’t know how many wounded would die because of inadequate treatment.

Tang Dao certainly knew that what Tan Tai Ming Yue said made sense, but the combat troops of the Four Lines Regiment were not yet fully staffed, so where would he get people to supplement the medical team?

Not to mention that there were more than 400 recruits left after the battle. Each company was eyeing this piece of fat, waiting for someone to recruit from these more than 400 recruits to replenish its own company to a full establishment. If Tang Dao said that the recruits should be sent to medical treatment. The team carried the stretcher, so those company commanders were not allowed to say that Tang Dao, the commander of the regiment, was partial to his fiancée?

Although this is a normal situation, as the leader of the group, Tang Dao still has to maintain balance even if he has complete control.

The human heart and human nature are always complex! Maybe a very small thing can lead to a breakup.

Tantai Mingyue understands Tang Dao's difficulties, but this does not mean that she will not pinch someone with Jiuyin White Bones when someone takes advantage of her but does not do anything practical. 'Claw marks' left on man's body!

This may be the difference in thinking between women and men!

A certain man has been in such pain and happiness for a long time, and he insists on not doing anything 'real'!

To use future parlance, it’s extremely shameless!

As for Zhuang Shisan, a guy with enough wisdom, as soon as he arrived at the station, he helped the medical team solve this big problem with his original intention of relieving the leaders' worries.

The medical team, which swelled to more than 300 people, immediately had more than a dozen doctors, more than 30 professional nurses and a large number of auxiliary personnel, and could at least receive more than 100 wounded people at the same time.

Of course, the sudden increase in doctors and nurses was also the result of the talented people from Jinling University's Department of Medicine actively joining after the Battle of Bihe. If it weren't for them, the number of casualties in the Battle of Bihe would have increased by at least one-half.

He is considerate and does practical things for his superiors, and he also knows his own position. How can Tang Dao not appreciate Zhuang Shisan like this?

Therefore, Tang Tuanzuo, who reached an agreement with his three deputies, set the tone from the beginning of the meeting, turning the meeting into a tactical discussion.

The battalion and company commanders still put forward many opinions for Tang Dao to record in person.

For example, Lao Hei and Gu Xishui of the Special Operations Squadron put forward: "Although our unit has infantry artillery, rapid-fire artillery, mountain artillery, large-caliber mortars and other types of artillery, it is fully capable of destroying the enemy on the city wall. A large amount of artillery shells will be consumed. Secondly, the infantry attack will still cause a large number of casualties after the artillery bombardment. Therefore, the role of the special operations squadron should be used. If we can enter the city in advance and use the cover of night to kill the defenders, this siege will be more effective!"

The two special operations squadron commanders are now becoming more and more clear about the concept of special operations, and at the same time they are becoming more and more confident. This is what Tang Dao wants to see most.

The battlefield is indeed the best training ground. Even if these officers and soldiers have not received any formal special training, their progress is far faster than in peacetime. It has only been a few months. The special squadron has gone from officers to soldiers. They already have some temperament and technical and tactical levels of special forces.

Infantry company commanders like Li Jijin and Zhao Daqiang are more concerned about the distribution of combat tasks. Of course, the sharp knife company is responsible for the main attack. Since they want to fight, they should be the strongest ones. Few want to be auxiliary.

If you play too many auxiliary roles, you won’t have the confidence to speak in meetings. This is also the consensus of infantry company commanders!

However, all these controversies were extinguished by Tang Dao one by one. It is a good thing to be the vanguard, but this must be arranged according to the actual situation on the battlefield.

To attack such a large target in Licheng, it does not mean that the Four Lines Regiment can capture it by sending all its main forces to surround it.

The Japanese army has a total of two strongholds near Licheng. The larger stronghold is in Lucheng, where there are two Japanese infantry brigades. After receiving the message from Licheng asking for help, they will naturally become the main force of the Japanese reinforcements, but that is also what Brigadier Cheng wants. If necessary, he has already set up a huge formation. If the Japanese army in Lucheng does not send more than a thousand troops, he will not be able to eat enough!

The other stronghold is in Shecheng, 26 kilometers east of Licheng. Its military strength is about the same as that of Licheng. It is an infantry brigade. They will definitely send reinforcements.

If nothing unexpected happens, they will use cars and motorcycles, carrying about two infantry squadrons and an infantry artillery squad to quickly reinforce Li City, just like they did in the past.

The main force of the 683rd Brigade is in the cloth pocket formation in the Shentou Ridge area. The Japanese reinforcements coming from the direction of Shecheng can only be dealt with by the Four Troops themselves. This also means that there must be troops to stop the Japanese aggressors or even annihilate them. .

However, if there are no accidents, there will be accidents. The arrival of Tang Dao has slightly changed history. Tang Dao does not dare to leave his fate to what he thinks he knows. What if the Japanese invaders are different this time and an infantry brigade descends on them? Out?

Therefore, Tang Dao would rather have fewer troops besieging Licheng than reduce the number of troops blocking the attack.

After all, the 683rd brigade of Japanese troops in Licheng has been determined several times. It is the strength of an infantry brigade, and it will not change much.

In the end, Lei Xiong decided that there was no need to fight. He was responsible for leading the first battalion to fight the blockade. If the Japanese army was small, the first battalion would eat all the skin and bones for him. If the Japanese army was large, then he would block them and dare to stand up. Just wait for the main force of the Four Lines Regiment to finish dealing with the enemies in Licheng, then turn around and kill them with one blow.

However, before that, Tang Dao had to complete Wei Donglai's infantry company, otherwise the battalion would only have two infantry companies and one fire support company, with a total strength of only more than 400 people, which was really short.

Tang Dao agreed, and he also intended to incorporate the new recruits into the company. After the last battle at Bihe, the recruits' performance was acceptable. This battle will be a test for them to become real soldiers.

It was just right, taking this opportunity to completely solve the problem of the new recruits' belonging, so that the battalions and companies would not look at this big piece of fat meat and complain to him every day.

Li Jiujin, that fellow, ran seven times a week. His temperament had long been comparable to Comrade Wang Xiaoqiang. If the two of them had a drink, Tang Dao felt that they would definitely become lifelong enemies!

In terms of shamelessness, they really did not allow anyone stronger than themselves to appear in this world.

At the meeting, Tang Dao announced that among the more than 400 new recruits, the 260 with the best performance would be assigned to the first and second battalions. As for the deployment of soldiers in the infantry companies of each battalion, it would be decided by the company commanders of each battalion. Of the remaining nearly 200 people, 70 would be assigned to the third battalion, and the rest would be assigned to the first and second artillery companies.

The first and second battalions were originally short of one company each, and most of the best-performing recruits were added to them. The third battalion and the two artillery companies naturally had nothing to say. Moreover, they were even more unlucky than the special forces company and the baggage company, which were also understaffed. These two companies waited eagerly for more than a month, but did not get a single person!

The first battalion took the initiative to jump out of the vortex of competing for the main attack, and the commanders of the other two infantry battalions could not let their company commanders jump out to fight for them. One attacked the east gate and the other attacked the south gate, and each sent a part of its troops to other areas to attract the Japanese invaders, which were all considered the main attack.

As for who will be the first to enter the city wall, it depends on their own ability, and they also need to be lucky enough. Whether the special operations squadron can open that city gate, we have to see after reconnaissance in the city.

Artillery Company 1 and Artillery Company 2, as well as the Guard Company, Cavalry Company, and Engineer Company were all dispatched. In addition to a portion of artillery from the two artillery companies to support the First Battalion, most of the artillery was placed in Licheng. The Engineer Company was responsible for assisting the First Battalion and the main siege force to build field positions, while the Guard Company and Cavalry Company were the reserve forces in Tang Dao's hands to deal with emergencies.

The Special Service Company and the Supply Company each sent half of their people, and some were responsible for staying behind to ensure the safety of the garrison, so as not to let the battle over there be robbed by this side.

After more than four hours of discussion, the high-level military meeting of the Four-Line Regiment, which was both controversial and united and harmonious, basically determined the tactical plan!

The rest was for each battalion to go back and prepare for mobilization, waiting for the time point determined by the 683rd Brigade.

If nothing unexpected happens, the time should be around mid-March!

The first battle of the Four-Line Regiment in Eastern Shanxi is about to begin!