After lunch, more than 380 of Gu Changfeng's brothers were temporarily organized into two companies by Yin Jinan. Mu Zhuiyi, the former deputy of the second company, and Cheng Guang, deputy of the third company, served as company commanders of the two new companies respectively. Gu Changfeng's subordinates
Eight of his most capable men were appointed as platoon leaders, and sixty-four of them, who had never fired a gun but had worked as a caravan, became the subordinates of Chang Chang, the commander of the munitions logistics unit.
With full stomachs, the brothers were strong and energetic. The marching team was orderly and the speed was greatly accelerated. In Yin Jinan's words, they wanted to regain the lost time. If they could not reach the originally planned Xita Town today, no one could even think about eating and resting.
Gu Changfeng was riding the dappled horse left by Xia Jian. There were brand new rifles on each side of the officer's wide belt around his waist. He abandoned the heavy wooden holster because it was awkward to carry it on his back. According to
He was given eight beautiful leather magazines at his request. He strung them all on his belt and pushed them to his waist. He put the big knife presented by An Yi on his rifle sling and carried it on his back. The beautiful tiger head-shaped knife handle came from
A large section of the back of his left shoulder was exposed, and his whole person instantly became majestic, like a sharp blade about to be unsheathed, making more than a thousand brothers respect him as soon as he saw it.
Gu Changfeng hung the telescope just given by An Yi on his chest, and followed An Yi with a happy face. The two of them had changed their names after walking ten miles:
"Boss, you said that Hustler and Xia Jian, with more than 200 elites, are taking the southern trail as a forward strike. Can the two hundred or so people block the two trail intersections in the north of Luo City?"
"No problem, we have made detailed reconnaissance and careful preparations for this battle. Two groups of reconnaissance brothers from the police platoon have been staying around Shangfu to ambush and monitor. They will see the detailed terrain and changes that have occurred.
Huzi and the others will be notified in time. They also have three reinforcement battalions of elite soldiers and generals. It is estimated that Shangfu has been occupied by us at this time, but I don’t know how they will deal with the more than 2,000 enemy defenders there. It seems that we can’t gain anything.
Prisoners, I hope Xia Jian will be smart and clean the battlefield in time to get some benefits, otherwise he will be overtaken by more than 2,000 brothers from the 4th and 6th regiments. They moved quietly with Huzi and the others the night before yesterday. Unfortunately, if
It would be convenient to have a walkie-talkie. Now we can all talk to Huzi and ask for details." An Yi missed the advanced communication equipment on modern battlefields.
"A walkie-talkie? Is it the kind of hand-cranked telephone that's popular in big cities?" Gu Changfeng asked in confusion.
An Yi shook his head: "No, it's a brand-new battlefield communication equipment. In recent years, European and American countries have begun to develop it. I haven't heard of anyone who can make it yet. The hand-cranked telephone you mentioned with a wired connection has been equipped with various equipment."
When we were in the army, the two trainees behind us who had just been assigned to the fifth phase of the Engineering and Soldier Communications Section of Huangpu Military Academy were doing this. I heard from them that the military telephone line from Guangzhou to Changsha has been set up, and it seems that it can be connected to Wuhan around New Year's Day next year.
At present, each division-level unit of our revolutionary army is equipped with bulky radio stations, which only have simple functions of sending and receiving messages. When Nanchang is captured, I will try to get two of them back to facilitate our communication with the division headquarters and all friendly forces. Otherwise,
You have to run to death to send a message."
Gu Changfeng looked at An Yi with admiration: "Boss, you have to tell me more about this, otherwise I will fall behind. I have been either wandering outside or hiding in the mountains all these years. What new things can I tell you?
It won’t work if you don’t know anything about it.”
An Yi laughed: "Hutou, with your solid foundation of studying the art of war and the Four Books and Five Classics since childhood, you will understand many new terms that sound quite scary as soon as I say them.
Even veteran platoon leaders who didn’t know a few know it now..."
An Yi immediately told Gu Changfeng in detail about the current military establishment, personnel composition, military law and military merit regulations and promotion system. He was very happy to see that Gu Changfeng accepted it quickly, so he changed the topic to the meaning of special operations.
The training and combat methods, functions and several battle cases were explained to him in detail one by one. Gu Changfeng listened with excitement and yearning. He was impressed by the unremitting efforts of An Yi, Yin Jinan and Hu Hui to train the sixty brothers of the police communication platoon for several months.
The instructor was very surprised. When he heard that the current Xia Jian platoon was just an early experiment and was still far from a real special forces force, he immediately realized the meaning of An Yi's words.
Gu Changfeng smiled, put away his smile and said in a low voice: "Boss, you can never take me away from you. I am determined to follow you in this life! Since my debut, I have only served three people, and the first one is my deceased friend.
My mentor, the third one is the hidden beard, and the second one is you. Although I am three years older than you, in my heart you are the person I will follow all my life, just as my mentor warned before his death,
He said that if I didn’t have a guide in this life, my life would be mediocre and even catastrophic. At that time, I didn’t understand the profound meaning of my mentor’s words. Now that I think about it, it suddenly becomes clear. In troubled times, everything depends on luck and fate.
Like Zhang Yide and Guan Yunchang during the Three Kingdoms period, if he had not been able to meet Liu Bei in troubled times, he would have had to kill pigs and sell dates for the rest of his life."
An Yi was horrified: "Hutou, you've said that! I've been nothing but a general in this life, and I'm definitely not the wise master you implied in your words. My short-term goal is to eliminate the separatist warlords and resist foreign humiliation.
Get rid of all the foreigners who have occupied our land in China. When things calm down a bit, we can set up a few industries in Nanchang, Nanjing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and even Beijing and Tianjin. Then we can go back to our hometown in Sichuan to open mines and build factories to produce some guns and cars.
What.
If you want to make a fortune in this life, it's easy. You can follow me and fight for a year. But if you want to become a founding hero, you have to take another path... Well, when Nanjing is captured, you can go to the military school to study systematically.
After a year and a half, I will take you to see Principal Jiang and recommend you to several bosses who are now very prominent. With your ability, you will be able to take charge of your own affairs within three to five years. It will not be difficult to become a military commander by then.
As for me, I will be relieved of my duties and return to work when the matter is over, and concentrate on developing my industrial and commercial empire. In this life, apart from fighting, the only thing I can do is make money, which makes me addicted, haha!"
Gu Changfeng raised his arrogant head in contempt: "Boss, you can't even think about driving me away. I'm determined to follow you for the rest of my life. I'll go wherever you go! As for Jiba's main battalion commander, special battalion commander and these basic...
I don’t care about any of these things, you can let others take care of them, haha... uh-ha!"
Gu Changfeng turned his horse's head and galloped towards the back of the team. His guard Dou Fang also rode to catch up. The machine gun behind him was shaking. He followed Gu Changfeng and shouted loudly to the newly recruited brothers.
Yelling and urging to speed up the march.
An Yi looked at the unruly Gu Changfeng's agile and heroic posture on horseback and sighed, thinking in his heart: I am just a fucking little school officer, what point does this guy value so much?
When he thought about his half-ideal, An Yi felt very heavy. He never expected that Sino-Japanese relations would be so good today. Not only was the Beijing government of the Beiyang warlords fighting fiercely with Japan, but a large number of revolutionary troops studied in Japan.
The returning generals, senior officials of the Central Party Committee and local government are all inextricably linked to the Japanese. It seems that everything in Japan is an example for China to follow. Everyone is blinded by Japan's hypocrisy, even
The huge interests and colonies that the Japanese Empire gained in China through the Russo-Japanese War are considered normal. Japanese professors and military instructors can be seen in schools and military academies everywhere. This makes An Yi very puzzled and hates it very much.
.
But now, what can he, a small battalion commander, do? Can he speak out against the Japanese invaders? What examples can be used to arouse people around him to pay close attention to the upcoming disaster? If he really does this, An Yi will
In the eyes of everyone, he will become an abnormal person, a paranoid or even an extremely ignorant and arrogant person. Therefore, he can only endure and step up to formulate and improve his expansion plan, striving to achieve it as quickly as possible and in the shortest time.
It's time to become a person with great power and broad social influence. Only in this way can he realize his ideals and do his best to save the disaster-ridden motherland and people. What he currently has in front of him is to continue to make meritorious deeds and work hard to move up.
climb!
It was already eight o'clock at night when the team entered Xita Town to set up camp. Huzi, who had successfully completed his mission, had led a company of more than fifty brothers from three platoons to the place an hour earlier and unceremoniously occupied the Wang Family Ancestral Hall in the east of the town. This was originally the
The headquarters of a battalion of Sun Chuanfang's Lintongjiang Brigade was located. The three rows of wooden barracks built around the ancestral hall were fully equipped and very convenient. As soon as more than a thousand brothers who were exhausted from walking came in, they could separate and bury pots and make meals.
Under the bright lanterns in the hall of the ancestral hall, more than a dozen captains of all levels were sitting around. After Huzi finished talking about the surprise attack, he raised his voice and talked with great admiration on his face:
"...At first I didn't know the purpose of the chief of staff ordering us to deliberately let go of a company of Luo City defenders. We just followed the order and killed a dozen deserters who fell behind. We sent three platoons of brothers to pretend to pursue a two or three-mile pursuit and picked up ten
A few long and short guns came back, but the brothers from the Fourth and Sixth Regiments didn't show up.
After taking Luo City, our troops and the brothers from the 1st Battalion of the 4th Regiment quickly approached Shangfu and occupied the commanding heights two kilometers east of the town before the arrival of more than 2,000 Shangfu defenders, using powerful firepower to block the enemy's retreat. 5
The regiment fought very quickly under the command of Commander Wen. Before the enemy had time to retreat, the three main battalions of the fifth regiment overran the position from the east. The third battalion of the fourth regiment and the two battalions of the sixth regiment broke through the north and south positions and narrowed the encirclement. The entire battle started from
It only took 43 minutes from start to finish. More than 400 enemy people were killed and more than 1,800 people were captured. More than 60 people were killed and more than 100 people were injured in various units of our division.
From the departure to the end of the battle, our first company and two platoons of the battalion shouldered the heaviest tasks. The decisive blow to break the enemy's brigade headquarters was ours that took advantage of the chaos and captured more than 50 officers and soldiers guarding the enemy's headquarters, including the enemy's major general.
Brigadier Lin Tongjiang and other twelve generals.
In this battle, 17 soldiers of our unit were killed and 29 injured, six of whom were veteran squad leaders. No brothers at the company and platoon level were injured or killed. The chief of staff and deputy division commander spoke highly of it. This shows that we have been fighting for many months.
The rigorous training is very effective.”
Huzi took the teacup handed by Yin Jinan and put it aside, and then said the division's admirable clever strategy:
"Just when I wanted to ask for instructions on how to deal with the prisoners and captures, the deputy division commander and chief of staff simultaneously issued orders to the three main regiments to advance quickly. Only then did I know the purpose of the chief of staff asking me to let go of a company of Luo City defenders.
The purpose was to have the defeated company return to Fengxin to report the news. The 2nd Battalion of the 4th Regiment and the 2nd and 3rd Battalions of the 6th Regiment who had stayed in Luo City had quietly followed them and rushed to Yijiaba, 24 kilometers east of Luo City, to set up an ambush.
, waiting for reinforcements from Fengxin City to get into the ambush circle, the three main regiments received the order and immediately dropped all heavy weapons and rushed to Yijiaba at full speed, leaving only the deputy of the fifth regiment, Li Yannian, to lead two new battalions to garrison Shangfu Town, and
Collect prisoners and count the captured ones.
Our division was ordered to go to Luo City in the east to station and rest for rest. The temporary command post of the division was also located in Luo City. When I left Luo City at 4:30 in the afternoon and came over, a horse came from the front to report that the two main regiments of Fengxin were defending the enemy.
Thousands of men and horses have entered our ambush circle, and the battle is going on. At that time, the deputy division commander and chief of staff were extremely happy."
All the brothers cheered, and An Yi leaned heavily on the back of the chair, holding his aching left arm and sighing: "Ginger is still hotter... I always thought that the plan the three of us worked hard to make was already awesome.
Unexpectedly, compared with the bosses like the teacher, it seems so narrow and short-sighted. We only calculated the gains and losses in one or two places, and did not analyze and study from the perspective of the overall situation. This time we finally know what is interlocking.
There is a plan within the plan...
What a boss! They deliberately let go of a company to defend the enemy, and also made the fleeing enemies who went back to call the police think that there were not many of us. This further strengthened their confidence in serving the new enemy and rushing to the aid of Shangfu Town. In desperation, they obediently sneaked into the three battalions and set up a preset
pockets, and other main battalions rushing over to join in the fun, the two enemy regiments were gone.
As a result, half of the defenders of the two divisions in the Fengxin direction were lost, and the remaining division with more than 7,000 men could only defend the isolated city and could no longer attack. The battle below our second division was much easier to fight. The division seats and several
This boss is really smart!"
After hearing An Yi's words, the brothers immediately shut up and meditated. After a while, they all sighed in admiration.
Gu Changfeng, who was participating in a combat meeting for the first time, was dazzled by what he heard. These were just ingenious strategies and accurate calculations that he had read in books. Now that they appeared next to him, how could they not shock and admire them?
Seeing the guilt on An Yi's face, Gu Changfeng finally understood how big the gap was between himself and the brothers here. Being proud and self-reliant, he secretly made up his mind to work hard to catch up step by step, otherwise his face would be disgraced!
"What did Xia Jian and the others gain?" An Yi asked feebly.
Huzi smiled slightly: "The total amount of cash and gold and silver jewelry collected is about 6,500 yuan, and 12 bags of smoke. The captured heavy weapons were all given to the fifth regiment cleaning the battlefield as previously intended, leaving two 80% new guns.
heavy machine guns, four American-made light machine guns of the same standard as ours, more than 350 long and short guns, and most of the rest were given to a few main groups."
An Yi nodded: "I guess Xia Jian and his gang of grandsons are just trying to collect gold, silver, treasures and opium. We can't do this next time. We are now almost reaching the number of 1,500 brothers, and the artillery company will be established soon. Artillery
There is no trace of it yet, so how can we not seize more and keep it as our own? However, this achievement is considered decent."
Only then did Huzi have time to turn to Gu Changfeng: "Changfeng, I had a premonition that you would come back, so I brought you a small gift. Changhe, bring the thing over here... This is the cape worn by the enemy's major general and brigade commander that night.
While drinking, I noticed you looking at my belt for a while. It's a pity that the one I seized was taken away by Xia Jian, otherwise I would have given it to you. Fortunately, I got a new one, which is more sophisticated than the one I used.
I’ll make up some for you now.”
Gu Changfeng took the exquisite lanyard specially made by Beiyang General and liked it very much. The silver buckle inlaid with gold shone brightly, and there was a sheathed dagger hanging on it. He pulled it out and saw that the seven-inch blade was blue and extremely sharp.
The ingenious silver buckle is exquisite and sleek, and the flexible and thick cross-body strap is extremely convenient. He couldn't put it down and was very grateful. He suddenly stood up and respectfully saluted Hu Hu with a fist: "Thank you, brother!"
Beard shook his head slightly: "Now that you are wearing this military uniform, you will have to change it to military salute in the future."
The brothers laughed, but Gu Changfeng did not laugh. Instead, he put his legs together and saluted Huzi with a standard military salute. Huzi quickly stood up and returned the salute. This back and forth caused another burst of laughter from the brothers, and even An