Rise From Eight Hundred

With Tan Tai Ming Yue, the killer of the news media industry, the Four-Line Regiment did not suffer much from the 20th Division, except for the bruised face of Regiment Commander Tang and a squad of infantrymen who were beaten up.

However, the several officers of the regiment were still very angry about the squad of infantrymen who almost dragged the entire Four-Line Regiment into the abyss. After bandaging their wounds that night, Lei Xiong and Gong Shaoxun personally questioned the situation that day and why they were captured by the 20th Division without firing a shot.

As a result, the 89th Division should have received the information that the Four-Line Regiment was marching towards this side early, and had ambushed elite soldiers in the mountains, and waited until the infantrymen had completely entered the mountainous area before suddenly appearing.

Four light machine guns and more than a hundred rifles were facing them from all directions, and there was even a heavy machine gun on a hilltop. In addition, the other party wore the same military uniforms, and they only asked them to put down their weapons for inspection.

Faced with the situation where the strength of the two sides was more than ten times different, the army sergeant who was the squad leader of the infantry squad weighed the pros and cons again and again, and finally chose to lay down his weapons and accept the so-called inspection.

He thought that even if the name of the Four-Line Regiment was not useful, as a friendly army, they would not do anything to them easily. At most, they would need to trouble the superiors to come to negotiate, which was better than starting a war and their entire infantry squad would die in this mountain.

But it turned out that this was what the 89th Division wanted. The division commander Zhang was an old fox. He had carefully studied the battle report of Tang Dao and knew that he would not give up his soldiers easily. He just wanted to use these dozen people as bargaining chips to force Tang Dao to bow his head and surrender.

It was a conspiracy that had been planned for a long time, and they were successful in the early stage!

The only thing he might not have expected was that Tang Dao was much tougher than he thought, and he showed off his muscles right away and scared him.

Soldiers are cunning!

If Tang Dao started to contact the 89th Division right away, it would most likely be led by the 89th Division.

That's why Tang Dao took a risky move, using firepower to show his strength and determination, and successfully turned the completely unfavorable situation around a little bit. At least, it completely shattered the 89th Division's previous delusion that they could get what they needed without bloodshed.

After asking clearly, Lei Xiong knew that these ordinary soldiers really couldn't be blamed. They were calculating intentionally or unintentionally. After all, he still underestimated the energy and courage of the 20th Corps.

This pot should not be borne by these soldiers, but by him.

However, considering that seven of the soldiers were tortured but signed the materials that incriminated Tang Dao, this stain made Lei Xiong, Gong Shaoxun, and Zhuang Shisan a little embarrassed. Let's deal with it according to military law! To be honest, it is estimated that if the entire army of the Four Lines Regiment was pulled over and went through this, I'm afraid that less than half of them could survive the torture.

In the end, the decision could only be given to Tang Dao. Tang Dao, who woke up in the morning, first tacitly negotiated the terms with Master Zhang who came running over, and then dealt with the matter.

It is not good not to punish them. After all, they made a mistake. It is not good to punish them too heavily. The command made a mistake because of underestimating the enemy. These soldiers at the lowest level cannot bear all the responsibility.

Tang Dao finally made a punishment decision: deduct two months' salary from Lei Xiong and the second battalion commander Guo Shouzhi, and one month's salary from the 15 soldiers of the infantry squad from the sergeant squad leader down. After the injury is healed, the whole squad will report to the baggage company, responsible for transportation during the day and training new recruits at night!

Faced with this punishment, the soldiers of the infantry squad were very grateful. They made such a big mistake, and the commander of the regiment was bruised and swollen. They thought that the lightest punishment would be a demotion or even a whip, but they didn't expect to be fined one month's salary.

As for reporting to the baggage company and training new recruits, it is really not a big deal for these soldiers who came from a poor background. Moreover, when training new recruits, they can find good seedlings and pull them into their own battalion and company. If they don't do well, the battalion commander and company commander will have to reward them!

Only Lieutenant Colonels Lei Xiong and Guo Shouzhi looked bitter. Last time, they were fined half a year's salary, and this time it was another two months. That means they have no money for half a year. They are not like Tang Dao, a bachelor who feeds his family. They have families and their families are waiting for them to send their salaries back to live!

"Look at your useless appearance. This time, our regiment will pay the full amount of the reward. One of you has made great contributions in Cangcheng, and the other has shot down several Japanese fighter planes in Baihe Port. You must get 70 or 80 yuan each! What's the matter? Your two families are big families. You have to eat roasted whole lamb every two days?" Tang Dao looked at the two colleagues and said to them unhappily.

"I don't care. Anyway, I will have no money for the next half year. I will eat with you, the regiment commander!" Lei Xiong heard that the family had enough money, and his voice became louder.

"Follow!" Guo Shouzhi was rarely humorous.

Several people in the regiment laughed, even the usually cold Leng Feng laughed.

That was also the end of the worry about the 20th Corps, and everyone was relieved.

However, one must be on guard. Under Tang Dao's arrangement, the Four-Line Regiment rested in front of Mangshang Mountain for half a day. The whole regiment took the first battalion as the vanguard, and the 2nd Artillery Company was the first to enter the mountainous area under the escort of the 2nd Battalion. Then the regiment headquarters, the special agent company, the guard company, the cavalry company, and the student company entered as the second batch, and finally the 3rd Battalion, the baggage company, and the 1st Artillery Company.

The 89th Division finally fulfilled its promise, opened the defense line, and let the entire Four-Line Regiment pass.

It took four hours for the entire Four-Line Regiment to finally cross the complex terrain of the mountainous area at the junction of several provinces and continue to advance to the north.

Tang Dao, who was extremely weak due to exhaustion, recovered faster than many people imagined. On the third day, he was basically the same as an ordinary person and had no problem walking.

That also means that Tang Dao no longer has to lie on the cart, freeing up the capacity of a cart.

At the first moment, Chief of Staff Zhuang allocated the cart to the medical team for the eight wounded who could not walk on their own, which finally gave the guards of the medical team a break.

It is estimated that the middle-aged handsome guy was a little dissatisfied. From this moment on, he had no car to borrow, and had to rely on his feet to march with the large troops of the Four Lines Regiment.

The Four Lines Regiment issued a military order yesterday. Except for those who were really unable to walk with broken legs, no one in the regiment could occupy the resources of carriages and horses, and even Tan Tai Yunshu was no exception.

This made Tan Tai Yunshu, who borrowed the son-in-law's cart, very dissatisfied for a while. He took advantage of the time to catch Tang Dao, the initiator of the military order, and said that Tang Dao's behavior of fighting one hundred and fifty was stupid, and almost made his little cotton-padded jacket a widow, and that he was blinded by his greed for a while to let his little cotton-padded jacket and Tang Dao, a young man, get engaged.

At that moment, Tang Dao really felt like a big idiot. If he had known that fighting a guard company alone would cause such a chain reaction, he would have to stay healthy, at least to ensure that his legs were good!

Want to escape, but unable to escape! This was the miserable state of Captain Tang that day.

Tan Tai Mingyue, who took time to come and visit Tang Dao, could only silently express that she could not help. Who asked you to issue a military order that the middle-aged handsome guy would measure the earth with his legs from now on?

More importantly, it happened just a few days after the engagement. Isn't this a bit of a bridge-breaking? What's wrong with the old father-in-law who is used to a life of luxury and nagging you a few words?

Looking at his fiancée who came to visit him and ran away with a look of self-care, and the smiling and teasing teacher Xiao He, and Li Jiujin and his gang who were trying not to smile but didn't even give him a cigarette, Tang Dao gritted his teeth and chatted with the middle-aged handsome guy.

If we ignore the military, Tang Dao's knowledge, apart from knowing some poems and future trends that are familiar to future people, such as "Why do I often have tears in my eyes? Because I love this land deeply!", he, the future little butterfly, can't really be compared with his father-in-law who has been well-read and traveled thousands of miles since childhood.

But fortunately, Tang Dao is a young man. Compared with this era nearly a hundred years ago, Tang Dao is so fresh.

"When friends come, there is good wine. If the jackal comes, there is a hunting rifle to welcome it!" The song that Tang Dao hummed casually made Tan Tai Yunshu's eyes light up.

All afternoon, the middle-aged handsome guy was learning to sing the song "My Motherland". Don't say it, the middle-aged handsome guy's melancholy temperament coupled with his mature and vicissitudes of life voice, singing the sentence "This is my beautiful motherland, where I grew up!", really has some taste, the soldiers walking beside him, although sweating, couldn't help but hum along with his rhythm!

Relying on his "talent", Tang Dao escaped and persisted until the next day. Tang Dao, who had recovered some strength, fled from the cart. It was not possible to follow the whole army. Seeing his son-in-law carrying two rifles like an ordinary soldier, Tan Tai Yunshu stopped complaining.

At least, his future son-in-law didn't let him be a porter, so he carried a small bag on his back, which was quite considerate.

In fact, the transportation capacity of the Four-Line Regiment has been saturated. Starting from the secret warehouse of the Northeast Army, the equipment of the two infantry regiments has actually overwhelmed the baggage troops of the Four-Line Regiment.

Not to mention that the equipment carried by packhorses and carts has reached its limit, the load of a single soldier alone has reached 30 kilograms or even more. It may be okay to carry such a load for one, two or three days, but if you want to march long distances, it will be exhausting.

But as the saying goes: God closes a door for you, and opens a window for you!

The unexpected appearance of the 89th Division not only blocked the 4th Regiment on the march for several days, but also consumed 2,000 rounds of various artillery shells and 100,000 rounds of machine rifle bullets. It seemed to have caused considerable losses to the 4th Regiment, but it unexpectedly helped the 4th Regiment save a lot of transportation capacity.

At least ten carts and 20 pack horses were freed up for transportation, which made the commander of the baggage company, who was still in the acting period, finally breathe a sigh of relief.

More supplies and equipment are a good thing, but if people are exhausted to death on the march, it will not be worth the loss.

So from the beginning, Tang Dao used a nearly dry pond to squeeze the transportation capacity of the baggage troops. Zhuang Shisan and the commander of the baggage company both expressed different opinions, but they were all vetoed by Tang Dao. He would rather he, as the commander of the regiment, carry dozens of kilograms of equipment on his back, and his mount turned into a pack horse. The majestic cavalry company that was finally formed also dismounted and became a transport team.

That was because they didn't know how expensive and scarce the supplies in the north would be, especially the equipment.

But Tang Dao knew that the troops that swore to go to war in northern Shaanxi were eager for equipment.

According to the war history records of the 129th Division stored in the Military Museum, as one of the three main divisions of the 18th Group Army, the 129th Division swore to go to war in Zhuangli Town, Fuping County on September 30.

In order to defend the border area, the 129th Division left a main infantry regiment plus the 385th Brigade with about 4,000 people, and the main force of the 129th Division that went to the anti-Japanese front in North China totaled 9,367 people.

And how were the equipment of more than 9,000 people who almost represented the highest combat power of the 18th Group Army? Tang Dao, who watched the war history records with his own eyes, was extremely sad at the time.

At that time, the 129th Division had a total of 3,412 rifles, 724 carbines, and 43,012 rounds of bullets for rifles and carbines, with an average of only ten rounds per rifle and carbine; 539 Mauser pistols sounded like a lot, but there were only 2,872 rounds of bullets, with an average of only 5 rounds per gun; 93 pistols and 3 Bergman submachine guns, with a total of 6,051 rounds of bullets, with an average of 63 rounds per gun;

93 light machine guns, 27,361 rounds of bullets, with an average of 294 rounds per machine gun; 29 heavy machine guns, 23,222 rounds of bullets, with an average of 801 rounds per heavy machine gun; 6 mortars, 678 rounds of shells, with an average of 11 rounds per gun;

The entire division wore cloth caps, no steel helmets, and also had hundreds of grenades and dozens of bayonets, which were only equipped by elite soldiers.

Tang Dao still remembers that there was a major staff officer in a certain group army headquarters who went with him. He obviously had never been in the front-line troops and asked the commentator: "Without even bayonets, how did our army fight hand-to-hand with the Japanese army?"

Facing the puzzled and contemptuous eyes of the commentator, the old professor who led the team was furious and asked the nerd to go back to the military academy and be confined for two days on the spot.

Who said that you can't fight hand-to-hand without bayonets? There are less than 5,000 guns for more than 9,000 people in total, and the remaining 4,000 people are unarmed? The troops that were formed from scratch may be poorly equipped, but they never lack the determination to defend their ideals.

The broadsword and the javelin, as well as the red tassel spear developed from natural materials after arriving in the mountains, are the standard equipment for every soldier!

Whether it is an ambush or a siege, after three shots, the infantry must charge. They prefer hand-to-hand combat more than the Japanese who like to use hand-to-hand combat to show their bravery. It is not to show how high their military strength is, but there are no bullets for them to consume.

The only thing that can be consumed is human life!

Just like the 115th Division, which became famous in one battle, with superior forces and advantageous terrain, it effectively surrounded a baggage battalion of more than a thousand people of the Itagaki Division, and on the periphery, two infantry regiments blocked the reinforcements of the Japanese army. Logically speaking, these more than a thousand Japanese soldiers are not only trapped in a jar, but can also be chewed and swallowed up like a beast, but the actual battle situation is not like this.

First, although this Japanese army is only a baggage soldier and a second-line soldier of the Itagaki Division, its actual combat power is not weak; second, the most core reason is that the ammunition of the 115th Division is not enough for them to use firepower to cover and eat away the remnants of the Japanese army bit by bit like the battle of the Four-Line Regiment in the Gold Pit.

They had to rush over and resolve this extremely successful ambush with hand-to-hand combat. Judging from the outcome, more than a thousand Japanese invaders were completely wiped out, which was extremely successful.

However, the casualties made several important generals of the 115th Division, who had experienced countless storms, look solemn. The casualty ratio was a jaw-dropping 1:1.

This is the current situation of the northern battlefield. There is no large-scale battle of hundreds of thousands of people like the southeastern battlefield, but the degree of tragedy is no less.

Tang Dao knew that for every extra bullet he brought, he might be able to save one more soldier. Those veterans were all elites who had passed through the gates of hell.

Therefore, Tang Dao would rather die of exhaustion than transport as much equipment as possible to the north. Not to mention the Zhongzheng and Type 38 rifles replaced by the Four-line Regiment, even the old sleeves, bird guns, and single-handed rifles eliminated by the Sichuan Army, Tang Dao was reluctant to throw them away and brought them all.

Therefore, after negotiating with the 89th Division to pass through their defense zone, the officers and soldiers of the 89th Division on the mountain were surprised to find that the elite infantry regiment that had blown off several inches of the mountain with cannons, various machine guns, and grenade launchers the day before was somewhat different from what they imagined.

They imagined that the officers and soldiers of the Four-Line Regiment were all in high spirits, carrying guns and marching in formation, singing military songs in an orderly and majestic manner.

They guessed a lot right, and they were indeed marching in formation with guns on their backs, but asking them to sing military songs was indeed a bit too much.

Every soldier of the Four-Line Regiment carried at least two rifles, and their belts were full of bullets. They also had bullet bags and at least six grenades hanging on their bodies. They wore a steel helmet on their heads, and another helmet was tied to the backpack on their backs.

Just looking at the weight was enough to make people ache!

Because they knew that the troops in front of them were not going to participate in the upcoming Battle of Xuzhou, but to cross a long journey of 2,000 miles to the northern battlefield. It would take at least 33 days to march 60 miles a day. It was unimaginable that they had to carry such heavy equipment and march at a speed of 8 miles per hour for nearly eight hours every day.

Moreover, the troops equipped with such equipment were not 100 or 200, nor 1,000 or 2,000, but the whole regiment!

Until he saw the four-row team formation similar to the baggage team disappear from his sight, an army major sighed solemnly: "Fortunately, we did not go to war with them!"

The several lieutenants around him did not ask curiously, because only veterans like them knew why their major battalion commander made such an exclamation.

The scary thing about the four-row regiment is not how good the equipment is or how rich the ammunition reserves are, but its mental will.

Those who dare to march long distances with such heavy loads cannot reach their destination without sufficient mental will and strong body.

But in fact, the Four-Line Regiment was not as strong as they thought. In addition to 2,000 soldiers who could fight, there were 500 new recruits in Xuzhou and 300 students. These 800 people were the biggest weakness of the Four-Line Regiment. If a real war broke out, they would be thankful if they could obey military orders and not run around.

So, this difficult long-distance march with the whole army carrying more than 20 kilograms of weight is not only a test of will for the elite soldiers of the Four-Line Regiment, but also a training subject arranged by Tang Dao for these new recruits.

When new recruits join the army, the first test is not the formation of obeying orders, but the indomitable spirit and will!

Even Tang Dao himself does not know how many people can pass the test, especially those student soldiers! ...

PS: I recommend a new urban book "Portable Museum" by an author friend. Today is still a 5,000-word chapter, two chapters combined into one chapter!