Today is a sunny day, and in the slightly cold north wind in Hainan winter, the military flag of Ma Niao Fort is fluttering in the wind.n∈,
Tian Liang got up before dawn and repeated his daily work over and over again. He followed the issued documents and instructions meticulously, fearing that he might miss something.
It has been a week since I received the order to "pack your bags and be ready to go". The preparations for each company and battalion have been completed. The brigades, battalions, and companies of the combat troops have come to the general staff and joint logistics officers to take the trouble to check over and over again.
The equipment status of each soldier and each company is afraid of missing a detail.
The supplies shipped piled up like a mountain. Not only were the expedition equipment replenished, but weapons were also inspected. The rifles in the hands of the soldiers were inspected according to the ordnance inspection. Other personal equipment, large luggage, and small luggage were all inspected over and over again.
, for fear of omission. However, while ensuring everything, we must be careful not to overweight. We strictly inspected the "three-thirds and four-points" work of each unit in accordance with the regulations. That is, the regulations for each soldier on carrying supplies and equipment, which clearly clarifies the provisions for carrying supplies and equipment during wartime.
Usually, what should you bring during training and what should you not bring?
This order has been implemented in the past, but it has never been so meticulous as this time. The general staff officer who came to inspect brought a scale and measured the load of each soldier one by one. It was not even a pound more.
Tian Liang was extremely busy. His company was newly built. Although veterans were recruited in proportion when forming the new unit, the proportion of new recruits in the company was still too high, and the new recruits were recruited through the compulsory military service system.
The first batch of mobilized soldiers had quite complex ideological conditions.
In the past few years, life in Hainan has been getting better day by day, and the enthusiasm of the people to serve as soldiers has been greatly reduced. No matter how well treated the soldiers are, no matter how high their status is, their lives will be in danger once a war starts. Therefore, after the recruits enter the camp, the emotional ups and downs are quite big.
As an officer, you must not only do ideological work, but also ensure that no deserters are found. To this end, each squad has designated "help targets" and let veterans be responsible for "man-to-man". Although the civil affairs system of the Senate has been able to ensure that deserters do not
You can catch him by escaping to the mainland or deep in the mountains and forests, but once he deserts, it will have a huge impact on morale.
"It takes time to catch deserters. Before they are caught, your company will be shaken because of a deserter. People who were originally hesitant will make up their mind to escape after seeing the example." In the officer training class
Above, veteran Wei Aiwen of the Political Department of the General Staff said this. He specializes in teaching company political and ideological work to newly promoted grassroots officers.
Preventing deserters and boosting morale have become the main tasks of grassroots company officers like Tian Liang. This is a hard job for Tian Liang, who is clumsy and not good at speaking. Fortunately, this military expansion has added a group of "student officers"
", are the first batch of graduates of the Army to complete the complete three-year officer training. They all completed two years of junior primary school in Fangcaodi and then transferred to the Army training class for three years. Their cultural level and military quality are all the same.
What the previous officers could not match was the actual experience of leading troops in combat. Tian Liang's company also had a young officer added, and Tian Liang left these things to him.
Because they are no longer training, most of the time is spent in meetings. General meetings at all levels, small mobilization meetings, and recollection of hardships are held in turn. The new student officers are eloquent, full of new words, and are good at instigating. All kinds of agitations and propaganda issued by the propaganda department
The materials are full of famine, plague, excessive taxation by the government, victims selling their children and women to eat human flesh, the invasion of the East, rogue bandits, and the brutality of the Jin gentry... It does not take much effort to describe these, as long as they are drawn from the mainland.
Refugees who have fled from China have more or less experienced it personally or heard about it with their own ears.
In addition to propaganda materials, organizing soldiers to "remember their sufferings" and sending special "preaching groups" are also important means. Real people tell the story. The effect is more vivid and touching than dry written materials.
He remembered the numbers that the company secretary had given him yesterday at the meeting to remember the suffering: 95 people who had experienced running away and begging; 100 people who had suffered from hunger; 70 people who had one or both parents deceased; 91 people who had deceased brothers and sisters.
14 people who had been sold into slavery; 31 people who had sold their wives, children, brothers and sisters; 9 people who had been sodomized... Finally, there was a cold and terrifying number: 10 people who had eaten human flesh.
His company only had 100 men in total.
The peaceful time in Hainan buried their horrific memories of the past. But now the political mobilization meeting has awakened these horrific memories from the depths of their minds, turning them into incomparable anger and inspiring high morale.
Tian Liang walked past the company's wall bulletin board. In addition to the unshakable "Lingao Times", it now contained the letters of determination of everyone in the company. Texts written in various handwritings and fonts were all over the wall, including many red writings.
. Shockingly eye-catching. Tian Liang was about to take a look when he suddenly heard crying in the soldiers' activity room. After a while, two soldiers came out supporting a man, who must have fainted. Tian Liang was already aware of such things.
It’s not surprising. Most of the soldiers here escaped from death. Who doesn’t have a lot of tragedy? It’s just a cover up on weekdays, but now when it is brought out, huge emotional waves are often
It's overwhelming for their nerves.
Thinking of his life experience, Tian Liang's eyes became hot and he almost shed tears. He was afraid of being seen badly, so he quickly turned around and rubbed his eyes, controlled his emotions before walking back to the kitchen in front.
The company's kitchen is busy, and the cooking squad and the soldiers who help the kitchen are busy preparing lunch. Because they have entered a war-like state, each company has handed over the pigs and sheep raised by the company to the Tiandihui in exchange for fresh meat. Joint logistics
The daily food supplement has also been upgraded to a higher level. Now we not only have chicken, duck, and fish every day, but also for every meal.
When Tian Liang saw the steaming dishes on the big plate, he remembered a soldier who said he had been eating decapitation meals these days, and couldn't help but feel an indescribable emotion.
Suddenly, a rapid drumbeat sounded over the entire camp. Tian Liang was stunned. This was the drumbeat for "emergency gathering". He immediately picked up the whistle hanging around his neck and blew it, shouting at the messenger who was running over.
: "Quick! The entire company assembles!"
Almost immediately, the sound of military drums for an emergency assembly rang out over the entire camp. The officers and soldiers who had been preparing for the expedition for several months in the barracks couldn't help but feel startled, and a thought flashed through them almost at the same time: "Here we come!"
The four infantry battalions and the directly-affiliated troops at the corps and brigade levels that had been trained in Majiaobao quickly gathered on the large playground.
"Take a break!" the officer on duty gave the command, and then shouted: "Please give the commander of the South China Army a speech!"
"Comrades!" Xi Yazhou stood on the wooden reviewing stand and shouted loudly into the loudspeaker that had just been set up. "I am now reading out the order to everyone." He unfolded a document in his hand and paused briefly.
Read: "Order of the Chairman of the Senate!..." When these seven words came out of his mouth, with a "swish" sound, all the officers and soldiers stood at attention solemnly, all eyes focused on his closed lips, waiting for the following
content.
"The units of the South China Army, the 1st Infantry Battalion, the 8th Infantry Battalion..." Xi Yazhou read a long list of unit numbers in one breath, "We are marching in Australia in the Song Dynasty, and the armed forces under the leadership of the Senate are in opposition
We have achieved a great victory in the revolutionary war against the counterfeit reactionary government. The enemy's aggression against us has been shamefully destroyed, and the base of the reactionaries who launched the war have also been severely punished. The entire Hainan has been liberated, which is our
The result of the heroic efforts of all officers and soldiers. I would like to express my warm congratulations and thanks to you.
But our combat mission is not over yet. Puppetry still oppresses the vast number of people on the land of China. The incompetent Puppetry regime is not only unable to protect the people, but intensifies its cruelty to the people. The land of China is in dire straits.
I order! All the officers and soldiers of the Fubo Army shall resolutely implement all orders of the Senate, cross the sea and conduct the Northern Expedition, eliminate the puppet Ming reactionary troops, liberate the country, and at the same time eliminate bandits, Eastern captives, and rogue bandits, and suppress all resistance and troublemaking behavior of the reactionaries.
Chairman of the Senate and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Wang Luobin.”
"Long live!" As soon as Xi Yazhou finished speaking, thousands of soldiers gathered on the playground shouted together.
The troops formed in square formation shouted long live. Everyone knew that the leaders were going to compete in the Central Plains and conquer the world!
After reading out the order for the Northern Expedition, Xi Yazhou glanced at the blue-gray phalanxes below and said loudly:
"Bring out the flag!" the political commissar shouted again, and the flag bearer came up from the back row of the team holding an eagle flag high. The flag was already very worn, and the bright red flag surface had turned gray-red, but the iron fist on the flag was
The spike gear pattern and the Latin letters "s.s.a.e" below are still clearly visible.
Tian Liang knew that this flag was the military flag that was erected on the embankment during the second anti-encirclement and suppression campaign. He had participated in this battle, and remembering the scene of the battle on the embankment, he couldn't help but get excited.
"Please raise your left hand, place it on your left chest, and take an oath facing our military flag." The moment Xi Yazhou finished speaking, Tian Liang's muscles were tense with excitement, and his ears were buzzing, almost
Unable to control himself, he followed the oath taker and chanted word by word: "For the sake of the Senate and the people, I am willing to sacrifice myself, move forward bravely, and fight bravely..."
The military music started playing, coming from the loudspeaker in the camp. The sound of the Fubo Army's march echoed over the camp. The roar of "Long live long live" spread throughout the Majiao Peninsula. Tian Liang clenched the handle of the command knife.
, the whole body and mind are full of strength. If you can die fighting for the Senate at this time, what a happy thing it would be. (To be continued.)