On August 21, the military meeting at the level of group army commanders and corps commanders held by the Second Theater Command in Linfen ended.
The commanders and army commanders began to return to their respective ministries.
Li Jiayu, then commander of the 47th Army of the 22nd Army, issued a combat mobilization order to his two units before setting off from Linfen.
One is the 104th Division, and the other is none other than the Four Elements Regiment!
"The theater military order has been issued, all ministries are ready, and troops will be dispatched soon!" Commander Li's telegram to the 104th Division and the Fourth Army Regiment contained exactly the same content.
Although Tang Dao has not received the specific meeting notification, this telegram has already shown that the Si Xing Regiment is determined not to escape from this tactical counterattack to help the Jiangxia Battle that is in full swing.
After receiving the news that troops were about to be dispatched, the various units of the Four Lines Regiment trained even more frantically. Everyone knew that there was not much time left for them to continue to familiarize themselves with the equipment and practice marksmanship and artillery skills.
And the four regiment headquarters, staff headquarters, munitions department, baggage company, engineer company, medical company, and communications company were also so busy that they couldn't even touch the ground.
The staff department formulates various combat plans, the munitions department, and the baggage company need to reserve various combat supplies. Special companies such as the engineering company, medical company, and communications company work overtime to prepare the supplies needed by the three companies during the war.
Bai Sheng, for example, stays at the arsenal almost every day. His purpose is to hope that the machine tools and steel-making furnaces in the arsenal can help his engineering company process steel plates with two specifications of 10 mm and 20 mm thick. Those things are used to build heavy firepower fortifications.
necessity.
According to Tang Tuanzuo’s requirements for the protection of heavy machine guns and machine guns, if a bunker can be built, the top must be protected by 10 mm steel plates and logs and a layer of soil of more than half a meter, and the front needs to be protected by 20 mm
Steel plate with three layers of sandbags.
This level of protection can withstand frontal bombardment from 800 meters away from 70mm infantry guns and shelling from 75mm mountain guns.
If there is no time or conditions to build a bunker, the machine gun and heavy machine gun fortifications must also be made of 20 mm steel plates and sandbags to a height of 1.2 meters. This can not only withstand infantry artillery bombardment from the front, but also effectively reduce the impact of mountain artillery bombardment on heavy firepower points.
There will be no damage unless it is accurately hit by the mountain cannon.
Bai Sheng's engineer company has now expanded to 410 people, and each of its five engineer platoons has 80 people, which is almost equal to half of the original engineer company.
Coincidentally, each of the four infantry battalions is assigned an engineer platoon, and the professional tasks are left to professionals. The remaining engineer platoon will follow the regiment headquarters to support the various ministries at any time.
Logs and sandbags can be obtained locally at any time, but special materials such as steel plates must be prepared and carried by the engineers themselves.
In addition to these special materials needed to build strong fortifications, the most common weapon carried by the engineer company is probably landmines.
There are a large number of anti-infantry mines. The principle of this thing is very simple, but it is not easy to manufacture, especially it cannot be easily detected by Japanese metal detectors.
So far, the scientific research team led by Mr. Xiao He has not been able to mass-produce the kind of miniature anti-infantry mines requested by Tang Tuanzuo.
That is the Tang Dao Anti-Future Type 72 anti-infantry jump mine design. It has a diameter of 79 mm, a height of 35 mm, and a total combat weight of only 125 grams. The jump mine uses an integral fuze. The plastic mine shell greatly reduces the detection rate of the mine detector.
, the design of the wrapped anti-personnel steel column allows it to kill an astonishing 650 fragments. After the mine is detonated, it will have no blind spots within a 14-meter killing radius.
What’s even more terrifying about this kind of landmine is that it doesn’t contain much explosives, so the fragments’ killing kinetic energy is not that great. Many soldiers who stepped on the mines by mistake were mostly injured but not killed.
And this is the real purpose of this kind of anti-infantry mine jumping. On the battlefield, you can ignore the dead soldiers, but what about the living ones? Even the Japanese army, which is known for its cruelty, will not ignore it, and a wounded soldier often needs 2 to 4
Only with the help of several soldiers can the troops be withdrawn from the battlefield, which greatly limits the enemy's troop input. Once there are too many wounded soldiers, the combat effectiveness of this unit will decline sharply.
Unfortunately, the plastic shell required for this kind of anti-infantry jumping mine is too difficult for this era, so it can only be replaced with an iron shell. Due to technology limitations, there are not so many steel balls wrapped in it. The highest fragmentation rate in the test was only more than 400
, due to the insufficient power of the explosive, the killing radius was also reduced to 8 meters, but that was still very rare.
After Tang Tuanzuo left after the Battle of Southeast Shanxi, it was developed and finalized as the Min-27 anti-infantry mine. It was loved by several chief officers of the Sixings Regiment Headquarters and asked the arsenal to work overtime to produce this kind of mine.
Unfortunately, the arsenal has too much equipment to rush into production. Only 1,500 of these mines have been produced so far, 600 of which have already been reserved by the reconnaissance company.
The reconnaissance company is the most important eyes and ears during the four-line team battle. All equipment is attached to them first, such as the newly produced 'Black Star' pistol. Even the chief officers such as Tang Dao and Lei Xiong have not yet equipped it. The reconnaissance company
They already had a handful of them, and when they said they wanted so many, the other battalion-level officers could only stare.
However, Bai Sheng's reasons are very good. The job of laying landmines has always been done by the engineering company. Therefore, 600 of the remaining 900 mines of this new type of mines went to them, and they also added Tang Dao from Lou Dehuak.
1,000 SMI-35 mines found in the Lupp warehouse.
This kind of landmine is not well-known at present, but it will become famous in the future World War II, nicknamed "Bounce Betty".
During combat, this anti-infantry mine, which was equipped with the German Empire Army in 1935, will eject to waist height and then explode, shooting the steel column horizontally at a fatal speed...
Really, when Tang Dao discovered this thing in the arms warehouse, all that flashed in his mind was the wretchedness in the blue eyes of the Germanic people who were looking at the serious face, and this one was just playing "crotch picking"
The tactical design is not anti-infantry at all, but really anti-human!
If more of these landmines are laid, will the Japanese fertility rate be several percentage points lower than it will be in the future?
The pressure threshold of 7 kilograms and the design with built-in trip wire are enough to ensure that the mine will not be detonated by wild animals or natural impacts. The terrifying killing distance between 20 meters and 100 meters is simply designed to kill infantry.
The five-legged disability often caused by "Bounce Betty" left a psychological shadow on Allied soldiers, led by American cowboys, until many years after the war.
Because the success of 'Bounce Betty' has attracted countless imitators, including the Chinese military industry.
Insidious damage has almost become a must-have feature for future anti-infantry mines!
Anyway, Tang Tuanzuo was complaining about the evil deeds of the German Empire's military industry experts in front of Lou Dehua, and at the same time he was shouting, "I've got these mines covered."
It's a pity, only these 1,000 pieces!
But this has basically allowed the small 2000 Japanese infantry to successfully become eunuchs.
In this era before antibiotics, the principle followed by Western medicine is to cut wherever the rot is. Except for the head, nothing in the body should be cut.
Speaking of antibiotics, the Japanese don’t have them, but Si Xing Tuan does now.
Another extremely important scientific research team of the Si Xing Tuan, under the guidance of Tang Dao's clear enough theory, successfully extracted penicillin and successfully tested it, and also carried out small-scale mass production.
In four months, a total of more than 8,000 people's supply of penicillin was produced.
This has also become the greatest confidence for the health company led by Tantai Mingyue. It means that the health company no longer has to fight in vain against bacterial infections, nor does it have to helplessly and sadly watch the wounded die in the hospital bed due to bacterial infections.
According to statistics from the Sanitary Company, more than 40% of the seriously injured people died due to bacterial infection. For the Four Lines Regiment, which fought continuously, that is hundreds of officers and soldiers. They originally had a chance to return. On the battlefield, bacteria interrupted their young dreams.
And this time when Tang Dao returned from Jincheng, he not only brought back various weapons and equipment, but also a large amount of drugs such as anesthesia, coagulation, etc., and various medical supplies filled five carriages, not to mention enough for the Four Lines Group One regiment is used, and an infantry division is probably enough.
Tang Dao even brought back five blond doctors and more than twenty Chinese female nurses, whom Tang Dao entrusted Laura to recruit with high salaries from the largest Western medicine hospital controlled by the Rockefeller consortium in Pingbei City.
The original conditions offered by Tang Dao were an annual salary of US$5,000 for each doctor and US$1,000 for each nurse. But what was unexpected was that when they heard that they were going to serve the Chinese army, the Chinese nurses took the initiative to lower their salaries to US$100. Not to mention, five doctors from the United States also asked for a significant salary cut.
In their words, they are willing to do whatever they can for the Chinese people who are fighting against the invaders.
Later, on the way back, Tang Dao talked with them carefully and found out that these Western doctors originally came to China for the generous salary, but after arriving in China, especially after the July 7th Incident, they witnessed with their own eyes the tragedies caused by the Japanese army in the city. , my impression of the Japanese is extremely bad.
Being able to help the currently weak China fight against the brutal invaders is a reflection of Western culture that advocates freedom.
This should also be regarded as an ideal and belief!
Tang Dao did not fully agree with the request of these American doctors. Not everyone is a saint, and the material conditions in the vast mountains are inherently lacking. It is difficult to sustain long-term treatment by faith alone.
Under Tang Dao's insistence, the personal salary of American doctors was still as high as 2,000 US dollars, and the salary of nurses was reduced to 300 US dollars, which converted into annual salaries of 8,000 oceans and 1,200 oceans respectively, which were lower than those of many senior officers of the Four Lines Regiment.
Military pay must be high.
At this time, the medical company, in addition to the necessary guard platoon, had 16 doctors, 150 nurses capable of simple trauma treatment, an additional 300 stretcher teams, and 50 medical tents with a capacity of 8 beds.
That means that more than 10 surgeries can be performed at the same time, and it has the ability to treat more than 400 seriously injured patients and 1,000 lightly injured patients.
The newly added 300 stretcher teams are all selected from the recruit companies. Each stretcher has four people per set and can transport the wounded to the health company on the battlefield at a rate of 75 people per round.
At the same time, in order to prevent the health company from being attacked by a small roundabout force of the Japanese army, Tang Dao, except for the reinforced guard platoon, all medical staff were equipped with Black Star pistols, and the 300-person stretcher team was also equipped with rifles and machine guns according to the infantry platoon model.
Perhaps it cannot be used as a front-line field force, but if it is attacked, even if it is an infantry squadron level, a fully armed elite guard platoon leading 300 recruits, it can be resisted for at least an hour.
Generally speaking, the security company and special agent battalion following the regiment headquarters are nearby and can be reached in less than five minutes. Unless it is the main force of the Japanese army, it would be a fool not to kill him immediately under the attack from the front and rear.
As the commander of the health company, Tantai Mingyue and her fiancée who had been back for nearly ten days only had two meals together. The two of them, who were stationed only 500 meters apart, did not see each other much.
As for other things, I know everything about the heel, and I haven't even thought about it. Maybe a straight man with strong hormone secretion has some ideas before falling asleep, but he doesn't have a ball, so he has a ball?
The communications company led by Yang Xiaoshan is also full of strength this time. Even though its establishment is only 98 people, the communications company is responsible for ensuring smooth communications between the regiment headquarters and the units directly under the regiment headquarters.
Especially for the most important artillery battalion companies and platoons, no matter how far apart they are, telephone lines and telephones must be adequately guaranteed. Only in this way can the artillery group be able to fully concentrate its fire.
Tang Tuanzuo has already said at the mobilization meeting of officers at the battalion, company and platoon level that whether this attack can defeat the Japanese army depends mainly on whether the officers and soldiers of the four infantry battalions can continue to display the heroic and fearless determination of "I am invincible".
The second is whether each company of the artillery battalion can continuously and effectively deliver artillery shells to the Japanese positions accurately.
There are 3 companies in the artillery battalion. The mountain artillery company has upgraded to 12 75mm Bofors mountain guns, both in range and accuracy, which are far superior to the previously equipped Type 41 mountain guns; the heavy mortar company has upgraded to 12 German-made 150mm mountain guns.
The caliber, accuracy and power also surpass the previously equipped 6 Liao-made 16th-year-old 150 heavy guns; the air defense company replaced the 24 20mm Surotong machine guns and 24 Browning 12.7mm heavy guns.
The machine gun's defense capability against medium and low altitudes has almost doubled compared to before.
Artillery equipment has been qualitatively improved, but how to maximize its potential, communication plays a crucial factor.
Today's communications company has four German-made Siemens 100-watt radio stations. According to needs, two are kept at the regiment headquarters for backup. One is given to the artillery battalion and the other to the cavalry battalion; there are six 15-watt radio stations and four parts are given to the regiment headquarters.
Four infantry battalions were allocated, one to the special agent battalion and the other to the supply battalion; 20 5-watt radio stations, 12 infantry companies belonging to the four infantry battalions, and four machine gun companies were all assigned to one.
Division 4 was given to the reconnaissance company as needed.
In addition to these German-made radio stations, the Fourth Army also had some radio stations captured from the Japanese army, which were also distributed to other companies directly under the battalion as needed, basically ensuring that each company-level unit had a radio station.
The characteristic of wireless communication is that it can contact regiment and battalion headquarters regardless of topography, but it also has major shortcomings. One is that places with special terrain cannot receive signals, making communication difficult to connect. The other is that the radio station requires electricity.
Field radios use batteries, but high-power radios require generators.
Therefore, the radio station cannot guarantee smooth power-on at any time. Communication at this time requires wired communication. According to Tang Tuanzuo's requirements, the communication company must ensure smooth wired communication from the regiment to the camp and from the battalion to the company.
If the battle is fierce and the wires are blown down, then manual communication must be used, using two legs to keep the information flowing between the regiment and the battalions.
The communications company led by Yang Xiaoshan is not only a technical unit, it needs to lay tens of thousands of meters of telephone lines before the war and clear obstacles at any time. It also needs to act as a death squad. It not only has to run several kilometers in one breath on two legs, but also needs to run for several kilometers at a time.
The superior's decision is notified to the battalion-level units, and they may have to risk their lives to cross the line of fire.
Yang Xiaoshan, who went from being a top soldier in the front-line troops to a second lieutenant platoon leader and finally being transferred to the communications company commander, obviously had already prepared this. From the day it was established, the officers and soldiers of the communications company, in addition to studying the knowledge and theory of communications technology every day, did a lot of work.
The most common is the 3-kilometer cross-country training in full gear.
Perhaps they are not as heavy as front-line troops carrying heavy rifles and various supplies, weighing 25 kilograms, but the signal soldiers, who have no shortage of helmets, pistols, rifles, water bottles, and military rations, also carry a load of more than 15 kilograms.
The passing mark for the signal troops was 20 seconds faster than that of the front-line infantry. This was something Yang Xiaoshan took for granted in the eyes of the infantry.
After all, speed and endurance are what front-line infantry rely on. If they fail to arrive on the battlefield on time, they will lose their heads.
It's not the commander who wants their heads, but the enemy!
Sometimes, it only takes a few dozen seconds to seize the commanding heights. If you lose the commanding heights, you often don’t know how many lives it will take to seize it again.
In other words, that is the specialty of the infantry. Although the signal corps has a slightly lighter load, it is absolutely unbelievable for the infantry to surpass them in terms of speed and endurance.
But the achievements of Yang Xiaoshan and his communications company in this major training made all the infantrymen stunned.
All the fully armed signal soldiers with a 15-pound weight passed the passing mark!
"Did you see that the little guys in the communications company are better than you idiots? They all run for me, five kilometers of mountainous terrain, 50 rounds of live ammunition! Those who can't hit the 350-meter target at 150 meters will only have cabbage and rice at night!
"Looking at the training results of the Signal Company sent by the regiment headquarters, Fan Mobei, the deputy commander of the 3rd Company of the 4th Battalion, had a dark face and a red face, and roared so loudly that the mountains reverberated.
The soldiers of the 3rd company almost cried! Their deputy company commander is absolutely crazy. He just took everyone on a five-kilometer run in the morning and fired 50 rounds of live ammunition. Before he could calm down, he came again!
And if you shoot up to 50 rounds of live ammunition after running sorely, who can guarantee the accuracy of an average of 7 rings per round at 150 meters? You let those awesome scouts try it?
In the past, Chinese cabbage and rice would definitely make everyone cheer loudly, but now, in order to ensure the nutrition of all officers and soldiers during the military training, the meat meal per person per day has been increased to 5 taels, and an egg has been added. It is said that for this purpose, the Military Supplies Department
They bought up all the eggs in the entire mountain town and even called on some military personnel who settled in Dakouzi Cave to raise chickens in order to have enough eggs to provide nutrition for everyone in the future.
Hey guys, all the eggs are sold out, what about the eggs and chickens?
As a result, some "faint officials" were given cabbage instead of meat and eggs. How could the soldiers who were about to cry endure it? They should not run as fast as they could with red eyes, so that they would have enough time to recover their physical fitness and ensure their hit rate.
The scouts who were secretly complained by the soldiers of the 3rd Company of the 4th Battalion as being 'awesome' were two companies who met on a narrow road during a five-kilometer mountain cross-country trip. Fan Mobei looked at the soldiers of the Scout Company and looked at him with a smile.
Bing looked very unhappy at the children's expressions and suggested that the two sides compete on the spot.
It's nothing compared to anything else, it's better than a five-kilometer cross-country trip in full gear.
The result is obvious. The soldiers of the reconnaissance company selected from the entire Fourth Line Regiment won a crushing victory. Even the veterans of the original 542nd Regiment were more than ten seconds behind the last-ranked privates, leaving the newly established 3rd Company
Fully aware of the gap between myself and the elite.
Of course, the private at the bottom of the reconnaissance company is not a human, but a pig!
A big wild boar named ‘Guaiguai’!
The reason why that guy was ranked last in the entire reconnaissance company was not because it ran slowly, nor was it because the big wild boar had two MG34 machine guns and a box of bullets hanging on its body, carrying a weight of 60 kilograms.
But that guy was a glutton. He would run for a while when he was given something to eat, but would fall behind and graze if he wasn't given something to eat. Only when he saw his companion running far away would he chase after him with his four pig legs.
Just like that, he also defeated the veterans of the 3rd company for more than ten seconds. Thinking about it makes Fan Mobei's balls ache for a while!
Anyway, no matter what, the news of the upcoming expedition stimulated the officers and soldiers of the Fourth Army Regiment to train more and more enthusiastically!
The concept of "sweat more in peacetime and bleed less in war" does not need to be explained by Tang Dao. Most of these soldiers who have experienced the battlefield understand it!
This chapter has been completed!