"The Ministry of Military Affairs requires the Second Theater to take the initiative to attract the main force of the Japanese North China Front Army and prevent the Japanese North China Front Army from massive reinforcements in the Central China battlefield?" Tang Dao asked Gu Xishuidao.
"Yes, Deputy Lei Tuan and Director Ye asked me to convey this to you before I come to pick you up, sir. The Second Theater Command has summoned all group army commanders to hold a military meeting. The deputy commander-in-chief of the Eightyth Group Army
Already set off for LY." Gu Xishui replied.
"It seems that this battle will be fought in advance." Tang Dao looked at the mountains in the distance and sighed slightly.
For the battle he originally planned, it would be best to wait until the equipment such as MG42 machine guns, anti-tank rifles, and German-made 40mm anti-aircraft guns arrived in the army, and the Fourth Line Regiment would be upgraded to two levels in terms of armor breaking, fortification, and air defense.
It ensures nothing goes wrong.
But not everything in the world is subject to his will. The famous Battle of Jiangxia has already begun. China has invested 1.1 million troops in the four provinces of Anhui, Henan, Jiangxi, and Hubei, while the Japanese Central China Expeditionary Force has invested 14 divisions.
, 120 ships of various types, 300 aircraft of various types, and 9 divisions with 250,000 troops directly participating in the war.
In November 1937, although the Chinese government moved westward to the mountain city in name, the government agencies and military headquarters were actually in Jiangxia. Jiangxia was actually the military, political, and economic center of the country at that time. There was no room for failure in this battle.
Of course, it is not invincible. Since the preparations for the Jiangxia Battle, the Military High Command has formulated a strategy of exchanging space for time, using terrain and fortifications, to resist primary and secondary resistance, consume the Japanese army, and kill a large number of Japanese troops.
In fact, it was successful. This large-scale battle in the past time and space lasted four and a half months. It was the battle with the longest front, the largest scale, and the longest duration since the Anti-Japanese War. A total of 40,000 Japanese soldiers were killed or injured.
It greatly consumed the effective strength of the Japanese army and became a turning point in China's Patriotic War from strategic defense to strategic stalemate.
The current situation on the battlefield in China is that the North China Front Army of the Japanese Army, divided into two groups, is blocked at the last line of defense in Shanxi Province, while the Central China Expeditionary Army marches into several provinces in Central China.
The idea of the Chinese military command is to use the terrain advantages in Jiangxia to consume a large number of Japanese troops, and the strategy of the Japanese base camp is to wipe out China's backbone resistance force, the 1.1 million army, in one fell swoop! If they can eat them all in one bite, maybe China will be in trouble again
By effectively organizing such a large-scale army to form a resistance, China can almost be put into the pot.
Who would have thought that the stubborn track of history has changed slightly.
In the Battle of Xuzhou a few months ago, even though the Japanese army finally occupied Xuzhou, in terms of actual casualties, the two sides were only tied. In addition, in the recent victory in the Battle of Southeast Shanxi, even a Japanese major general was killed, and the Chinese side
The morale of the army was greatly boosted.
In just the first month of the war, the Japanese Central China Expeditionary Force felt like it was hitting a brick wall.
They have not yet entered the general offensive, and are still fighting on the outside. The Chinese army, which no longer sticks to the gains and losses of one city and one place, does not fight head-on with the Japanese, but fights flexibly and flexibly. In one month, the Japanese army lost more than 10,000 people, and the army troops invested
Although there were 250,000 men in nine divisions, they still felt that they were not strong enough and had to ask for help from the base camp.
In the end, the Japanese base camp could only ask the newly defeated Japanese North China Front to send the two main divisions, the 14th Division and the 18th Division, to go south to support the Jiangxia operation.
But this is also not an easy task. The total strength of these two divisions is more than 50,000. If the Japanese army occupied Zhengcheng, it would be okay. Relying on the Pinghan-Han Railway, it would just be a few more special trains to transport them there.
Unfortunately, not only is Zhengcheng still in the hands of China's First War Zone, but the Yellow River Iron Bridge has also been bombed. There is also a Chinese group army closely guarding the section from Zhengcheng to Xinyang, which is to prevent the Japanese troops in North China from reinforcing the battlefield in Central China.
However, the intelligence received by China has shown that the two Japanese divisions have left their respective stations, indicating that they still want to go south to reinforce the Central China battlefield.
Even if 250,000 Japanese troops attack, it will be difficult. How will tens of thousands or even 100,000 Japanese troops attack?
As a last resort, the Ministry of Military Affairs and Government could only issue a secret order to the Second Theater Command, requiring them to launch a certain-scale counterattack against the Japanese army in North China no matter what, try to hold back the main force of the Japanese North China Front Army, and add two divisions of the Japanese army to Jiangxia.
One more carry, but not two more.
"The telegram ordered Deputy Commander Lei, Director Night, and Director Zhuang of the Regiment Headquarters. From today on, the four-line regiment will enter a state of combat readiness. Each battalion and company will prepare military rations and required ammunition for the 15th, and the vacancies in each department will be filled as soon as possible." Tang
Dao gave the order to Gu Xishui.
"Yes!" Gu Xishui obeyed the order solemnly.
Several soldiers from the reconnaissance company around the two looked at each other, excitement rising on their faces.
In the last battle in the southeast of Shanxi, Tang Dao only ordered each battalion and company to prepare field rations for 10 days, but this time he was required to prepare field rations for 15 days. That only meant one thing, the scale of this battle was definitely not small.
The bigger the battle, the more opportunities there are to make military exploits.
After the last battle in the southeastern part of Shanxi Province, although the Tang regiment leader was away from the regiment due to important matters, the regiment headquarters still completed the work of conferring medals and awarding bonuses under the leadership of officers such as Lei Xiong and Ye Chenghuan.
A large number of award certificates and gold, silver, and bronze medals represent the glory of the soldiers, and the white flowers appearing in the ocean prove the value of the soldiers' hard work.
Moreover, for the first time, the Four Elements Regiment had a special merit in addition to the first-class military merit. However, the officers and soldiers of the Four Elements Regiment were only envious but no one felt jealous.
In fact, the way Lao Abacus, Yang Bicheng and Tudou used the strength of three people to stop a Japanese infantry squad and kill a Japanese center left and capture a Japanese major general, besides strength, it depends more on luck. Otherwise, no matter how magnificent the medal is, it will not work.
It can only be hung on the graves of the three of them.
Fortunately, the three crazy soldiers survived. The deputy commander of the Fourth Army Regiment, the chief of staff, and the director of the political department personally pinned the medals on their chests.
The three special merit medals are not only made of a large amount of pure gold, but are even inlaid with jade seized from the Japanese. It is said that the actual value of the three medals alone is more than 800 oceans. The special merit certificate is equally awesome.
The Fourth Army Regiment Headquarters applied to the Temporary Headquarters of the Southeast Shanxi Campaign and asked the CEO of the 80th Group Army who was the commander-in-chief to personally sign.
Although this is a medal issued within the four-line regiment, with a certificate signed by a general commander, the meaning is completely different.
And the two non-human guys who participated in that small but significant event also received a lot of treatment.
It goes without saying that he has a hammer and no medals, but as an official soldier of a four-line regiment, his military rank has been raised one level and he has become a real sergeant.
When seeing a sergeant-level military dog, the new recruits who have been in the army for less than three months have to call him Hammer Squad Leader, and the veterans have to call him Hammer Brother.
And the half-big wild boar 'Guai Guai', who had been seen to be made into bacon, now relied on his military exploits to follow his brother Hammer and infiltrated into the system and became an official soldier of the Four Elements Regiment.
What's even more awesome is that 'Guaiguai' loves his big brother Hammer. After Hammer came back from his business trip, he followed Hammer every day and mingled with the reconnaissance company. So, the deputy of Lei Tuan waved his hand and marked 'Guaiguai' away.
Returned to the reconnaissance company and became a scout.
Company Commander Hei and Deputy Company Commander Gu Xishui couldn't laugh or cry. You have to say that the wild boar "Guaiguai" was so ferocious that it bit several Japanese during that battle, so it was nothing to keep it.
But since this guy arrived at the reconnaissance company, he has almost lost all the people in the reconnaissance company. His daily life is to eat and sleep, and his military salary of less than 10 yuan can hardly support him.
It doesn't matter. At worst, one person in the reconnaissance company can fatten it up by saving one mouthful.
The word "fat" always feels like something is wrong, but the soldiers of the reconnaissance company definitely don't have any bad intentions.
But this guy actually likes to be self-reliant. Once he feels hungry, he will stick out his big head covered with rough hair and act cute everywhere. Whenever someone rubs his pig head, he must hold the other person's trouser leg in his mouth, not as big as a steamed bun.
Pies and stuff, even Brother Hammer didn't buy it when he came.
The key is that this guy also likes to go to the sanitation company, looking for the nurse lady in the sanitation company. It is said everywhere in the sanitation company that there is a rogue pig in the reconnaissance company who specializes in pulling the pants of female soldiers...
For this reason, Gu Xishui had to go to the health company to explain to the nurses and ask them to stop licking their obedient pig heads. Otherwise, if their pants were pulled down, the reconnaissance company would not admit it.
This is why the love story between Gu Xishui and Yao Meier is a legend in the health company. If it were other company commanders who said this, they might have been chased away by a group of female nurses in the health company.
'Good boy' is so cute, why are you talking about it so badly? If you have the skills, the tough guys in your reconnaissance company are injured during training, don't come to the toilet and even apply medicine.
The two chief officers of the reconnaissance company were still worried about Guaguai, and the regiment headquarters also paid Guaguai a 200-yuan bonus and subsidy.
This is truly a golden pig! The officers and soldiers of the reconnaissance company instantly fell in love with this little pig who likes to 'harass' female nurses.
There are two sides to this matter. Say no, no one can go to apologize! Maybe if you go more often, you can solve the lifelong problem of the singles in the reconnaissance company!
You must know that the regiment headquarters has strict regulations. No one is allowed to go to the health company station unless it is for injury or official business. Anyone who violates this rule will stand in a military position for 6 hours.
In front of the white ocean, the "eating and lazy" little wild boar quickly became the favorite of the reconnaissance company.
Even the reconnaissance company actually gained a lot from this battle in southeastern Shanxi. A total of 2 people received first-class military merit, 5 people received second-class military service, and 18 people received third-class military service. The bonus for the entire company was nearly 50 yuan.
If applied to the entire Si Xing Group, the entire group could receive a bonus of over 300,000 yuan, with an average of nearly 40 yuan for an individual, which is equivalent to four months of military pay for many new recruits.
Not to mention anything else, just in terms of bonuses, the Sixings Regiment deserves to be the No. 1 rich infantry regiment in the Second Theater.
But no one complained about the lack of military exploits and money. The upcoming war did not scare this group of Chinese elites, but made them extremely excited.
The head of a Japanese soldier is synonymous with military exploits and money.
Five days later, Tang Dao returned to the Sixings Regiment Headquarters with 276 officers and soldiers of the 542nd Regiment. Lei Xiong, Leng Feng, Li Jijin and others were already outside the gate with more than 50 former officers and soldiers of the 542nd Regiment who could come.
meet.
Meeting old comrades-in-arms is a great time.
One side has just escaped from the military camp where they were trapped for nine months, while the other side has been fighting bloody battles on the battlefield for half a year. Only half of the hundreds of comrades who were forced to separate due to their own choices now remain, and more than a dozen are missing arms.
leg.
"Shangguan, welcome home!" Lei Xiong took the lead and hugged his old comrade in arms.
However, what followed was no longer just a restrained exchange of military salutes, many people held hands and laughed and cried.
Even a restrained soldier like Shangguan Yun shed tears as he touched the empty sleeve of a second lieutenant who had tears in his eyes but a smile on his face.
He used to be his correspondent, but later he was urgently added to the infantry squad due to the war situation. Although he became a second lieutenant from a first class soldier in just over half a year, he lost an arm. What does this mean to the soldiers?
Qin Ruoyu cried loudly. The infantry squad he didn't take away could still hug him, but it was only three people. For the rest, even if no one told him the answer, he knew it very well in his heart.
Because, on the way to the headquarters of the Sixings Regiment, Shangguan Yun and the three company commanders had already asked Tang Dao to call over all the old brothers of the 542 Regiment who were not on combat missions so that they could meet each other.
More than a dozen disabled soldiers who had to withdraw from the front line due to injuries are here, and those who can't come will never come.
The soldiers of the Four Lines Regiment stood around and watched them silently. No one advised them to restrain themselves. They just watched in silence until everyone had vented their grief to their heart's content.
"Salute to the returning comrades and brothers!" Ye Chenghuan roared.
The sentry, holding the trigger with his hand, pressed the gun tightly against his straight chest. This is the military salute of soldiers performing military duties!
The rest of the four-line regiment, including Tang Dao who stood at the front, all raised their right hands and performed a standard military salute.
"Salute to my fellow comrades!" Shangguan Yun took the lead to straighten his body, hold his head high, and salute to his former signal corpsman and to the troops of the Four Lines Regiment who came to line up to welcome him.
Yes, as Ye Chenghuan said, what they joined this time was not a friendly army. This was the Four Lines Regiment, an honorary infantry regiment created by them with their lives and blood. This is their home.
Since then, the Si Xing Regiment has welcomed an elite group that has fought tough battles. More than 270 hard-blooded veterans serve as the skeleton, enough to support a fully equipped infantry battalion.
After the brief welcome ceremony, Tang Dao, who had just returned, immediately held a company commander-level military meeting. In addition to announcing the plan to form a fourth infantry battalion, he also informed everyone that within the next week, all artillery battalions would be re-equipped.
, the infantry battalion-level fire support company will also usher in new heavy firepower equipment.
20mm machine guns, 12.7mm heavy machine guns and dual-caliber artillery will become the heavy firepower to support battalion-level combat troops.
The 60mm mortar will completely replace the grenade launcher as fire support at the infantry platoon level. After the replacement, a large number of Japanese grenade launchers will be withdrawn from the front-line infantry squads. In principle, each infantry platoon will only retain
Both are useful.
In addition, the additional 40 MG34 machine guns collected from the Krupp Company's warehouse will also become the heavy firepower configuration choice for the 12 infantry companies. Basically, there can be one for each infantry platoon, and the remaining 4 plus the original ones
The two guns will basically be reserved for the reconnaissance company and the guard company.
There is also the problem of insufficient Czech semi-automatic rifles originally used by the infantry squad. This batch of German weapon division equipment shipped back has exactly 600 Czech semi-automatic rifles. Even if it is calculated, some of them should be reserved for the 80th Army and the 17th Division, 300 rifles.
It is also enough to increase the number of MP28 submachine guns by 2 for each infantry squad and one for each infantry squad.
The instantaneous firepower output of a 15-man infantry squad increased by 30% compared to before, and this did not even include the replacement of grenades with 60 mortars.
If we zoom in to the entire infantry battalion and add all the light and heavy firepower together, we are completely confident that we can withstand a Japanese infantry regiment.
After all, the infantry battalion-level heavy-fire direct-fire artillery planned by Tang Dao not only has 3 double-caliber artillery, but also has a large number of 82mm mortars and 60-mm mortars, flat-fire cannons and 20mm machine guns, not counting the range of 1500
The U.S. Browning heavy machine guns alone were enough to equip a Japanese infantry regiment with 4 mountain cannons and 10 infantry cannons.
If the heavy firepower cannot form a complete advantage over the Japanese infantry regiment-level troops, then in terms of light firepower, a large number of semi-automatic rifles and submachine guns, as well as the addition of the German MG34 machine gun, can compete with the Japanese 38 Gai and 9
Six light machine guns and a 500-meter range grenade are simply a complete crusher.
This short meeting definitely made the eyes of the soldiers present shine, and several officers of the 542nd Regiment headed by Shangguan Yun were dumbfounded.
Only then did they know that in 9 months, the Four Troops had grown into such a terrifying war machine.
If what Tang Dao said is true, I'm afraid its strength is no longer comparable to the 542nd Regiment of the past. It's not that there is no comparison at the same level, but it is comparable to the entire 88th Division.
This is because they did not know that the artillery battalion of the Fourth Line Regiment was about to be equipped with 12 Bofors 75 mountain guns, 12 150mm heavy mortars, 24 Sulotong 20mm machine guns, and 32 Browning 12.7mm machine guns.
Down.
As for these heavy equipment, not to mention the 24 artillery pieces for ground attack, the former 88th Division of the Royal Forest Army could not even catch up. The air defense equipment that can be divided into 8 combat groups to defend an airspace of more than ten square kilometers is something that many group armies have never had.
It was precisely with this luxuriously equipped air defense company that Tang Dao truly gained the confidence to fight the Japanese army directly on the spot without relying on fortifications.
Of course, in Tang Dao's mind, this is just an intermediate version. When Lou Dehua gets the German-made 40mm anti-aircraft gun that he always dreamed of owning, the Japanese small Type 96 fighter will dare to fly below 2000 meters.
, the air defense company of the Fourth Army Regiment will definitely make them deeply understand why the flowers are so red.
It was all dyed red!
"Damn it, it's you, sir, we are all convinced! You don't want that." Li Jijin, who was made to smile by the dazzling list of weapons dictated by Tang Dao, flattered him without any sense of restraint.
But soon, veteran Youzi will pay the price for his unscrupulousness.
That was the 'tragedy' caused by the appearance of a pig!
