From the first to the fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year, there were no Japanese infantry attacks or even aircraft harassment. The people of Dakouzidong Town had a rare and peaceful New Year.
But the officers and soldiers of the Fourth Army Regiment are not qualified to enjoy such a long vacation. Starting from the third day of the Lunar New Year, all members will end their vacation!
On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, Tang Dao announced the adjustment of the division of labor within the Four Lines Regiment at the 'Spring Training' swearing-in meeting to send New Year's greetings to all regiment officers and soldiers.
Since the Ministry of Military and Political Affairs officially announced that the Fourth Army Regiment was placed under the direct jurisdiction of the Second Theater Command and received the establishment of a special regiment, the Fourth Army Regiment also underwent internal organizational adjustments.
The first is the division of labor in the regiment. Since Chief of Staff Gong Shaoxun will be stationed abroad for a long time, he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel Shangguan Yun, Commander of the Fourth Battalion, as Chief of Staff and concurrently as Commander of the Fourth Battalion.
Lieutenant Colonel Gong Shaoxun serves as the director of the external affairs department of the Fourth Corps, focusing on the import of ordnance equipment and external communication business.
Although the officers and soldiers in the regiment did not quite understand how important this external affairs office was to the Fourth Army Regiment, some old men from the cavalry battalion who followed Gong Shaoxun from the 63rd Army privately expressed their dissatisfaction, thinking that this was a disguised attempt to undermine Gong Shaoxun.
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Perhaps only a few senior officers in the Four Lines Regiment know how much Tang Tuanzuo trusts Gong Shaoxun. Whether it is the 'Laboratory No. 1' in Handan or the connection between the German Krupp Company and the American Rockefeller Company,
They are all top secrets of the Four Elements Group.
Even Lei Xiong and Ye Chenghuan only knew about this matter, but they didn't know the details.
And only a few chief officers of the regiment knew that in addition to the research and development of new weapons and equipment and commercial cooperation, this external affairs department also has a more important function - intelligence!
Through this year's battle with the Japanese army, Tang Dao deeply felt the importance of intelligence work.
In the past, when the Four Corps wanted to obtain Japanese military intelligence, they mainly obtained it from the 80th Group Army or the theater headquarters. However, this required the information to be conveyed layer by layer, which was inefficient, and it was always subject to restrictions and could not distinguish its authenticity.
The harm caused by a piece of false information may not only kill one or two people, but may be a hundred or even a thousand times greater.
Tang Dao needs to develop his own intelligence system. He does not need to have a large staff like the military commander, who wants to be all-pervasive. Instead, Tang Dao hopes that his intelligence personnel will be hidden in the market. There is no need to infiltrate high-level officials, and he only needs to pay attention to the movement of Japanese troops stationed there.
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The intelligence system requires a lot of investment and personnel training. The funds are now abundant in the Four Lines Group, which means that personnel training takes time, but it is like painting. How to paint without spreading the canvas?
Gong Shaoxun is the top person in charge of external 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 are bosses there who have been specialized in intelligence work for many years in the 80th Group Army.
Together with his teacher, he was in charge of the highest intelligence system of the 80th Army.
Do you think Tang Tuanzuo’s several thousand kilograms of pork were given away for free? That was actually Gong Shaoxun’s apprenticeship fee!
Following Gong Shaoxun's departure, there were fully 30 veterans from Hebei Province and the three northeastern provinces. Together with Gong Shaoxun, they would become the initial prototype of the Four Lines Regiment's combat intelligence agency against Japan.
The source of funding and the intelligence system of the Four Lines Regiment, which are almost the lifeblood of the regiment, are placed in the hands of Gong Shaoxun. This kind of trust cannot be replaced by the so-called official position. Moreover, Gong Shaoxun is still among the big bosses of the regiment.
The ranking is still above Chief of Staff Shangguan Yun.
Moreover, nearly ten officers in the cavalry battalion were promoted, including two major officers. They were all direct descendants of Gong Shaoxun, which completely eliminated the self-speculation rumors within the regiment.
Pang Panghai finally became the battalion commander of the artillery battalion and was promoted to lieutenant colonel; the air defense company became independent from the artillery battalion and established an air defense battalion. Cheng Tietsou served as the battalion commander and was promoted to lieutenant colonel.
Both artillery battalions are highly equipped with lieutenant colonels, which also shows that the artillery battalion and the air defense battalion have an unshakable tactical position in the Fourth Army Regiment.
The establishment of the four major infantry battalions remains unchanged. The commander of the second battalion, Guo Shouzhi, and the commander of the fourth battalion, Shangguan Yun, remain lieutenant colonels. The commander of the third battalion, Leng Feng, is promoted from major to lieutenant colonel.
Since then, all six battalions of the Four Lines Regiment have been upgraded to the deputy regiment level. Anyone with a discerning eye will know at a glance that this is the preparation for the continued development of the Four Lines Regiment in the future.
The Second Theater Command was not stingy this time, and assigned nearly ten school officers to the Fourth Army Regiment in one go.
The mountain infantry company directly under the regiment headquarters was changed from a company-level unit to a deputy battalion-level unit. Captain Gu Xishui, who had just been promoted to military rank, has not yet become an army major, but it is only a matter of time.
The reconnaissance company and the engineering company were independent from the special agent battalion and became directly under the regiment headquarters and were changed to the deputy battalion level. The reconnaissance company commander Lu Sanjiang was not promoted again because he was just promoted to captain, but the engineer company commander Bai Sheng was promoted to army major this time.
But this engineer company commander, who was born in the Yunnan Army, was so excited that tears filled his eyes.
The engineer company commander who was once ordered to plant explosives to blow up the Yellow River Bridge originally thought that he was an abandoned son about to die, but he didn't know that he would be able to cross the threshold of a mid-level officer and become a colonel a year later.
Yang Xiaoshan, the former commander of the communications company, was transferred to the deputy battalion commander of the Dakouzidong Town Security Battalion. Although he still had the rank of captain, he was only one step away from becoming an army major.
Five people at the infantry company commander level were promoted. 1st company commander Zhao Daqiang, 2nd company commander Wei Donglai, 5th company commander Cai Yongguan, 7th company commander Li Jijin, and 10th company commander Tang Li were all successfully promoted to Army majors.
The medical company commander Tantai Mingyue was promoted from captain to major, the deputy company commander Erya was promoted from second lieutenant to lieutenant, and the medical squad leader Zhuang Damei was successfully promoted to second lieutenant. After the Battle of Licheng, the old man who wanted to find Mingxin joined the Four Lines Regiment.
Da Ya, a girl from the medical company, was promoted to Army Sergeant.
There are not many people who can be promoted from private to noncommissioned officer in less than a year, let alone in medical companies, even in front-line combat troops.
What Da Ya got was not the light of the clear path that she finally found, but the military merit that Da Ya earned herself. It was her duty as a nurse to rescue the wounded on the battlefield, but in the battle of Zhongtiao Mountain,
After returning to the wounded and seeing the heavy casualties on the battlefield, she actually chose to take off her Red Cross cuffs, pick up her gun, and fight the Japanese troops in the trenches. Such a fierce woman was extremely rare in the Four Lines Regiment.
Although there is no official record of killing a Japanese soldier in Daya, the fact that this female nurse, who accompanied the supply company on the expedition, persisted in fighting in the frontline trenches for nearly two hours was a great blow to the demoralized officers and soldiers of the Sichuan Army's new regiment.
She had great courage and was called the Goddess of War by the 2,000 new recruits of the Sichuan Army Recruitment Corps after the war.
After two levels, he was directly promoted from a first-class soldier to a middle-class soldier to serve as the squad leader of the medical team, which was comparable to those who received special merit or first-class merit.
Judging from the military rank alone, the nearly 18-year-old female sergeant is not far behind Mingxin's first-class sergeant major.
The corner of Ming Xin's mouth in the audience twitched slightly. His morality comes from the righteousness, and there is no such taboo as marriage. But his ideal is to get rid of all the demons in the world. How could he be tainted by such lustful things just after entering the world of mortals?
When he thought that after the war was won, he would lead a little baby back to see his senior brother: "Senior brother, the master has not been found, but I have brought back a nephew for you!"
Will the senior brother who is known for his honesty beat him? Mingxin thinks there is an 80% possibility.
Not to mention young Mingxin's somewhat fearful heart, in the hearts of many officers and soldiers of the Si Xing Regiment, they knew that with the four veteran Vajra Leng Feng, Lao Hei, Zhao Daqiang and Li Jiujin around Tang Tuanzuo all promoted to school officers, the new The Four Little Heavenly Kings Yang Xiaoshan, Gu Xishui, Lu Sanjiang, and Qian Dazhu have also begun to gradually take charge of their own affairs and are moving towards a more important commander level.
This was originally a promotion order issued by the Second Theater Command on the first day of the new year. Tang Dao waited until the whole regiment's spring training swearing-in meeting to announce it, also to boost morale.
Under the leadership of each battalion commander, the four infantry battalions entered designated mountainous areas to conduct civil engineering operations, simulated defensive operations, and fortified operations.
Of course, for the infantry battalion at the core of the Fourth Line Regiment, the most important purpose of this kind of field exercise is to allow the new recruits added to each battalion to quickly adapt to the battlefield environment and get used to sleeping in comfortable beds in cold weather. Instead of being in a barracks, they were lying in cold trenches or tunnels.
Moreover, whether it is marching, civil engineering work, or live ammunition shooting, new recruits and veterans need a running-in process.
If you try to get used to it in actual combat, it will undoubtedly cost you enough lives. Tang Dao hopes to use exercises as much as possible to make up for these shortcomings that cannot be touched in daily training.
The artillery battalion's mountain artillery company and heavy force company were all dispatched, and were divided into four parts to accompany the four infantry battalions in a half-month-long actual combat exercise.
To test whether the fortifications are solid or not, it is not for the commander to check with his eyes, hands and feet!
Practice is the only criterion for testing truth!
Tang Tuanzuo's standard for testing whether each battalion's fortifications are up to standard is very simple: bombard them with artillery!
The trenches were filled with fake wooden figures wearing military uniforms, but the dug tunnels were filled with real company and platoon commanders.
The explosive power of the 150MM heavy mortar shell is much more powerful than the Japanese 105 howitzer. If the tunnel dug is not strong enough, the first ones buried will be the company and platoon commanders who commanded the tunnel digging.
Of course, under the strict orders of Tang Tuanzuo, who was following the Fourth Battalion to guide the drills, he was the first person to enjoy such treatment.
What does it feel like to be bombarded by your own artillery? In the exact words of Qin Ruoyu, the commander of the Fourth Battalion Artillery Company: "That is a fear that has never occurred on the battlefield. I always feel that I must be a crazy lunatic!"
