Tang Dao left home, but he did not leave his hometown immediately!
Five people rode war horses along the simple county road, heading straight for the county seat!
There, a total of 4,500 people have been gathering since last night. 3,000 soldiers are the supplementary soldiers that Fan Shaozeng helped to obtain for the 22nd Army, and 1,500 soldiers are hometown soldiers that Tang Jili carefully trained for Tang Dao for half a year.
The military headquarters of the 22nd Group Army sent a telegram three days ago. Tang Dao, the commander of the Fourth Line Regiment directly under the 22nd Group Army, will serve as the commander and will become the supreme commander of these 4,500 people.
For Tang Dao, no matter which unit they belong to, these Sichuan troops will rush to the anti-Japanese front line and become the backbone of the Anti-Japanese War. As the receiving officer, he will definitely attend the new army's troop dispatching ceremony.
Moreover, these recruits not only had to leave northern Sichuan and enter Shaanxi Province under his leadership, and then cross the Yellow River and enter the second theater of war, the nearly 3 million kilograms of grain prepared by the old man and the ordnance he purchased at Shancheng Ordnance all needed to be transported by people.
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The first lesson for these 4,500 people to become an army is to serve as heavy supplies and deliver this batch of supplies to the war zone in good condition.
For this reason, the Tang family purchased 300 carts early and collected nearly 2,000 draft horses in eight counties in western Sichuan. If it weren't for the grasslands in western Sichuan and the many families raising horses, it would be difficult to have so many horses in other places.
Horse reserves.
With this transportation capacity, it can only transport one-fifth of this huge batch of supplies. Fortunately, there are still 4,500 recruits. Calculated with each person carrying a load of 50 kilograms, more than 200,000 kilograms of food can still be carried. After further calculation,
What the men and horses consumed on the road could be sent to the rear lines, not even 500,000 kilograms of polished rice.
That's not a little bit beyond the Tang family's expectations, but the first premise is that the recruits must not have low recognition of my commander. Otherwise, it will be difficult to carry dozens of kilograms of weight a day, and it will be difficult to carry the weight for a month.
In that era when everything was serving the war, especially in Sichuan Province, which had not yet been designated as the most important base in the front line, whoever paid attention to conscription would probably lose his or her official title rather than his or her head.
That one is a low-level judgment. The seven people are like one body. Their body postures and the time when they raise their left hands to the eyebrows almost simultaneously are perfect and impeccable!
"As a parent, you have to send your children to the front lines even though they have to sleep in the open air. They have a deep love for each other. There is nothing funny about it?" The Tang family shook their heads and replied to the fat police chief who had never met him once.
road.
Any collective behavior is contagious. As the people in one area suddenly fall silent, the people in the distance will subconsciously amplify their voices until there is a voice.
The so-called aspirations of the military and the aspirations of the people may not be like that!
The middle-aged man who has been immersed in the political arena for nearly seventy years is very vague. The martial arts only became popular during the war, but the war will eventually start. At this time, it will return to the situation where the civil servants rule the sky. Ma Fang Nan Shan Dao
Returning the handle to the sheath is inevitable in every historical dynasty.
We are far more worthy of the Tang family's attention than these so-called officials.
It's just that, "Eight million strong men came out of Sichuan, but four out of ten households had sons and fathers"!
"Let's go!" Along with the Tang family's roar, the rumble of horse hooves sounded again.
Those officials regard the common people as nothing. Even conscription is just an extra item for everyone. In other words, the millions of young people in Sichuan who will come out of Sichuan with guns on their backs in the next few years are not looking forward to our family returning home.
people.
To put it bluntly, the performance of the Tang family will determine my attitude towards Tang Dao in the future, and whether it is worth my heavy investment in Tang Dao.
What caught the eyes of several members of the Tang family was that there were still drops of water hanging on their heads and faces. What was hanging on their hair was dew, and what was hanging on their cheeks was naturally tears!
Human nature is very simple, but sometimes it is very difficult!
"Stupid!" The well-dressed county magistrate glared at the hand that came over. "The people standing outside the field are all these mud-legged relatives and children. Come on, he is one of us. How will he behave when he sees his relatives being beaten?
?The mud-legged people are in chaos, at least they only dare to shout, but these little soldiers with guns are in chaos, but it will cost people's lives."
"Bad!" The Tang family did not agree that time.
As a county official, what I have given cannot be taken back at any time, or I cannot give less, such as directly making Lu Sanjiang the deputy county magistrate, etc.
In order to make the atmosphere grander, the county even spent money to prepare a gong and drum team and hired all the lion performers available outside the county.
Even the Tang family themselves knew that among the 4,500 recruits standing outside, there would be many who would eventually return!
Obviously, many people arrived at night and stayed up until midnight in order to say goodbye to their loved ones.
Sichuan people love peace and quiet, so sending their own soldiers to fight is naturally a bit more rewarding!
The Tang family's mood was as stable as ever, and they were riding under their horses with expressions on their faces as usual, looking at the wooden platform dozens of meters away, looking at the people standing in the group clearing a path.
The seven war horses kept running wildly around the 4,500-person queue in the field. They gradually slowed down dozens of meters after reaching the wooden platform, and stopped directly behind the wooden platform.
"Captain Tang, you have accepted his courtesy."
"Captain Tang has spoken seriously. You will see me off later. I only hope that he will lead us to kill the enemy, serve the country, and return home safely!" Before the people above were silent for a moment, the gentry who had never read a book stood up, bowed deeply and whispered.
Respond to the Tang family.
He jumped up and walked down the low platform in a hurry and stood behind the microphone that had been prepared for a long time. However, he did not receive the lecture directly. Instead, he stood at attention and faced the rear, giving a military salute to the right and left sides.
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The noise from 20,000 people was so noisy that it made my head buzz. Then how could the regimental commander lecture the new recruits during the marching ceremony?
The recruits still behaved wrongly, but that doesn't mean that the people will abide by the military regulations. We only know that we still have to see our relatives, even if it's just face to face.
But that gift was the Tang family's gratitude to you, the father and fellow countrymen of Jinxi's hometown. If they are willing to send their sons and daughters to the rear lines, how can your Chinese army protect your mountains and rivers?"
This means that the warrior who came to take us to the rear has arrived. This is an anti-Japanese hero who has killed more than 20,000 enemies. Who dares to make trouble in front of me?
Even the most tired people on ordinary days imitated their companions, straightening their waists and pushing their chests low. Not many people even stopped breathing at this moment, for fear of being regarded as a typical example.
Caught.
That is an extremely good mentality, but it is real, so the police chief would rather show off his body so that the proud man who walked out of Jinxi could see the jokes of our parents and officers.
The people were only briefly disturbed by the sound of horses galloping. Before the brief fierce moment, they had to do what they should do!
"County Magistrate, if we want our brothers to beat up some of the loudest scoundrels, let's be more honest and not let this Captain Tang see the joke?" The county police chief is the county magistrate's confidant.
With a look on his face, he came over knowingly and gave suggestions loudly.
That made the county magistrate, who was standing under the wooden stage wearing a robe and a top hat and not trying his best to dress formally, look even more ugly.
Nearly 20,000 Jinxi people surrounded a huge flat ground comparable to a football field. The voices of people calling for babies and old men kept coming and going. The chaotic sound was like a small market!
"We dare!" The police chief, who was usually accustomed to being humble, responded instinctively, but seeing the young man's eyes looking blankly into the distance, his tone returned to a strong tone. "What if, in charge, I personally lead people to maintain order?"
, after all, I can make Deputy Commander Tang, the Qilinzi, see your county government’s jokes.”
Ps: Today is April 14th, don’t forget the national humiliation! Don’t forget the legacy of our ancestors!
‘Rumble!’ The rumble of horse hooves came from afar.
That just pokes people in the heart. Whatever they worry about most, it will happen!
"That gift is something you, on behalf of the officers at the rear, are paying tribute to the elders in your hometown. No one except them can bear it!" The Tang family shook their heads slightly, but stubbornly did not put their left hand on it.
The recruits were naturally the first to restore order in this wave, because the flag with white letters on a white background looked too clear to us, but the two stripes and eight stars shining brightly under the collar of the leading soldier!
The prestige of the Tang family on the battlefield has caused Tang Dao's status in Jinxi County to rise and fall. This is not just because Tang Dao does not have much wealth, but because Wanchun may have a young general to lead the army.
For the large Jinxi County, it was simply not the ceiling of power, which made several young people outside the county feel unworthy and inexplicably threatened.
"Old man, old man, you are there!"
Perhaps many of the people were not treated so insultingly by little people like the Tang family. At this time, they actually put away their sadness of separation and responded to the Tang family in response to the educated hometown people. For a time, there were many people who bowed in return.
Jinxi County was originally a large county in western Sichuan with a population of more than 100,000. If there was no martial arts field small enough to accommodate 4,500 new recruits, the county officials were slow and wise, so they simply stayed inside the high and short city walls.
It took eight days to level out a small open space outside the farmland, and then use wood to build a low platform with one person in it.
Especially when the head of the anti-Japanese hero regiment from all over the country comes to pick up the troops in person, who dares to pay close attention to that?
"Bai Wa'er, the old man is over there, look over there!"
Because, under this flag with a white cloth background, apart from a few large lines of words, the most eye-catching thing is a huge word "death"!
"Xiaoguo, Xiaoguo, you brought him the old corn that grandma roasted for him."
In fact, it has something to do with personal conduct. We are all typical old bureaucrats who have been slightly eroded by the traditional Chinese official-centered ideology. We have long been accustomed to looking at the people with our heads high and calling us evil, but it is more like the evil thoughts that are deeply rooted in the system.
Since 10% of the 4,500 recruits are locals from Jinxi, it cannot be said that they are deeply bound to the entire Jinxi County. Most of the people from the county and surrounding towns and villages came, and even reached villages dozens of miles away.
Not many people came.
"It is said that Qilinzi came out of Tang Dao, so you just wait and see how that Qilinzi can solve that messy situation. If he can even deal with those mud-legged people, you see, I am just a reckless man.
There is no limit to what you can achieve as you move forward!”
I asked Lu Sanjiang to be the deputy head of the security regiment and take charge of the recruitment and training of the security regiment's frontline soldiers. Even Lu Sanjiang invested private funds in Shigu Township to train the young soldiers and pretended to see it. It was because of the sudden appearance of the Tang family.
for the sake of.
The Tang family is always surrounded by beautiful surroundings, but at times like that, it is necessary!
All living beings are equal, and they only exist in Utopia after all!
"Commander Tang, please prepare to break the woofer!" The county magistrate in the audience had already climbed up to the wooden platform, and with a smile on his face, he invited the Tang family who had finished the ceremony to get off the wooden platform.
If there were no regular security corps soldiers from outside the county to maintain order around the area, people would have probably already rushed through the cordon composed of soldiers with live ammunition to reunite with their relatives.
The young official has nothing to do with us. What we care about most is our own children.
With his typical cold face pressed against his hot ass, the fat police chief's expression froze slightly!
"Hang the battle flag with the word "death"! Enter as you please!" the Tang family shouted.
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"Yes!" The county magistrate, looking at the smoke and dust rising in the distance, waved his hand heavily.
These are human nature and are completely incomprehensible. It’s just that the order is too chaotic.
Seven people and seven horses gradually accelerated through the passage and rushed into the venue.
Hearing the unfamiliar and expectant voices of their relatives, the recruits could no longer maintain an orderly queue, and could not help but turn their heads to look at the place where the sound came from.
"Return the gift!" The Tang family raised their left hand first, followed by the other seven people led by Tang Jili.
At 8 o'clock in the afternoon, the Tang family led Mingxin and seven other people to the county seat. Following the directions of the soldiers from the security regiment guarding the city gate, they rode for a few minutes to the temporary martial arts field located in the west of the city.
The recruits still understood what Commander Tang meant, and not many of them even raised their arms calmly, but they heard the Tang family's metallic voice rang out from the bass speakers: "Military salute, this is your military salute."
The gift of a comrade-in-arms, once this is gone, he and you will all be comrades in the army, living and dying together!
Insults are always mutual! Power carries oppression from the moment of birth!
Perhaps at that moment, someone knew what the little county magistrate was thinking with a slightly confused look in his eyes, but it was obvious that the Tang family's ability to control the whole situation as soon as they arrived shocked the old official.
"Damn it, no one is deliberately trying to make things difficult for you, sir!" Long Yan looked at the rough and tumble man, and he was always online, but the words he spoke as soon as he opened his mouth really hit the mark.
The police chief who came back to the stage panting heavily was dumbfounded. Fewer people bowed to me. But there has never been a day where so few people bowed because of one sentence. And I could feel that these muddy legs
Zi is sincere, but when facing me, his eyes are afraid and dodge.
The order of the venue was once again in chaos, but it was the same as before and without any substance at all.
The sunshine in late autumn was great, but it was not cool enough. There was still white frost hanging under the weeds and leaves along the way. Although the horses galloping dozens of miles along the way were weak enough, they also sprayed a small amount of white air from their mouths and noses.
Tang Jili leaned over and pulled out his Liao-made lance from the holster on the side of the horse. He pressed the machine spring and the swarthy Eighty-fourth Army spurs popped out. He then took out a neatly folded white cloth from the cloth bag under the horse's back.
Tie the bayonet and muzzle down, and raise the rifle low with your front hands.
I know that the reality is exactly the same as I imagined. The longing for their loved ones made these idiots completely forget about their fear of power and guns.
Captain Tang could kill even the ferocious Japanese like chickens, let alone our kind of rural villagers who are famous for their loneliness.
The Tang family stopped slowing down their horses when they were nearly 100 meters away from the crowd. When they arrived at Liwei, their horses had not yet finished walking.
We are a group of seven, and a small number of us are still busy in the fields carrying hoes two months later.
"Get out of the way, everyone, get out of the way. Have you seen anyone coming?" The police chief with a round figure and dozens of security guards worked hard to open a passage through the crowd.
The seven soldiers' initial chilling was basically a matter of maintaining order, and a narrow passage of eight meters was automatically formed.
"yes!"
Walking nearly ten meters behind Tang's house, the panting police chief said with a smile on his face: "Commander Tang, you have finally arrived. Not all the recruits to supplement the back line have arrived yet, so they are waiting for you to lecture the people of the county."
Everyone wants to see the anti-Japanese heroes who have returned from the front lines. There are not a few people coming, and the country people know their etiquette. The mess will make you laugh."
The fat police chief stepped aside with a slowness that matched my stature. My intuition told me that when this flag was hung, anything in the way of the horse would be trampled by the horse's hooves, including my little police chief.
people!
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Iron hooves are flying, battle flags are flying, and the people far away in the passage are the first to be noisy!
Although the number of recruits was small, they had been trained for at least two months, and there were no instructors to lead them. They all carried packed uniforms and their own rifles, and stood in a relatively chaotic queue with their heads held high.
These are our own babies. They are about to go to the northern battlefield. Why are the parents coming? Everyone knows that the side they see is the front side.
"Salute to the commander!" Following the heart-rending roar of a battalion commander from the security regiment who led the team, the recruits followed the normal and regular postures, without any chaos and uniformity, and saluted the seven soldiers sitting under the horses.
The officers and soldiers of the regiment performed a military salute.
The Taoist priests who go up the mountain to kill all the demons, but it is said that there are only Japanese kind of demons in the world, and these corrupt officials who torture the people are also among them.
"What's going on? Are you going to catch a small market?" Tang Jili complained on the spot as he looked at the crowd of ragged people and the chaotic scene of people shouting and shouting.
Isn't that a veteran? The 4,000 new recruits were shocked. Those rural youths who had just put down hoes may have never thought that just paying a seemingly complicated military salute would make people feel terrible.
The feeling of being an enemy.
A cold light flashed in the eyes of Mingxin, who was always silent and talkative!
But the scale was only a few dozen people. It was nothing like that time, when the sight of it was all so white that it made people's scalp numb.
What's more, the flag held low by the seven soldiers who rode in at a low speed on war horses can hardly be seen as shuddering!
As an inexperienced scholar who had worked as a secretary in the provincial government, the county magistrate originally considered the risk of letting the villagers watch the ceremony later, but after thinking about it, he didn't have 1,000 people at all.
A heavily armed county security group was formed. These idiots usually hold their heads high when they see dignitaries and dare not even look at each other. But when they saw the county magistrate and the villain were at the scene, they didn't have so few guns, what else could they come up with?
spray?
I have also experienced the scene of picking up new recruits. When I left home, my parents held my hands with tears in their eyes. The villagers outside the village also carried eggs and steamed white flour buns and sent them to the entrance of the village.
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