Although the whole convoy, the horse team meanders up to 1500 meters in the mountainous area!
But the marching speed can still be basically guaranteed.
The main thing is that you don’t need to worry too much about safety issues.
This mountainous area is all under the control of the 683rd Brigade and the Fourth Army Regiment. The Japanese army has just recovered from the sap. They have not sent troops to the completely empty Li City yet. There is no need to think about it during the march.
The problem of arranging soldier vigilance.
As for those thieves who were hiding in the mountains for their livelihood, looking at such a huge convoy and hundreds of fully armed troops and even towing a few artillery pieces, let alone wanting to get a share of the pie, they passed by under their noses.
They were all so scared that their legs were shaking.
Considering the speed of the march, the baggage company was not fully loaded. A large cart carried about 700 kilograms of supplies, and the packhorses carried 100 kilograms of grain. When encountering uphill sections, there were soldiers to help push it.
Even so, the total length of the 50-mile mountain road took more than 6 hours.
By the time Tang Dao led his troops to arrive five miles away from the Dakouzidong regiment headquarters station, it was already 5:50 pm.
Today's weather is good. During the day, the sky is blue and the clouds are light and the wind is gentle. In the evening, the sunset glows like fire, and the whole mountain seems to be covered with a thin red gauze.
Tang Dao was in a good mood, but it wasn't because of the weather.
But since entering the Dakouzidong area, the rest of the road has been peaceful except for the soldiers at checkpoints placed on the bright side who came out of the fortifications after inspection to pay a military salute to the large troops transporting baggage.
But as long as you search carefully with a telescope, you will still find some clues hidden in the calmness, some in the bushes, some in the rubble, with a little metallic luster.
That's the muzzle of the gun!
There are at least 10 secret sentinels on the 15-mile mountain road from the mountain pass to the regiment headquarters. Those were requested by Tang Dao before he left, and now they have basically been implemented.
The secret sentries abided by military regulations and did not show up to salute just because he, the regimental commander, appeared. At most, they did not lower their guns and point them at the road to show respect for their superiors and comrades.
This made Tang Dao very satisfied. Although it was another great victory, the officers and soldiers of the Si Xing Regiment were not proud, and everything was as prepared as during the war.
The news of Tang Dao's departure had already been reported to the regiment headquarters via the radio. After entering the Dakouzi Cave area, fireworks were set off at checkpoints to report the regiment's return to the rear.
The current Si Xing Regiment is not yet luxurious enough to equip checkpoints with field radios or telephones. Primitive Fenghuo communications can send messages quickly in the mountains.
At the peak above each checkpoint, there are always three piles of wet wood that have been poured with oil, and a rumbling smoke column rising more than 20 meters high can be seen from 15 miles away on a good day.
When an enemy invades, three piles are usually lit together, which is the highest alert. One pile is lit to indicate the return of one's own people, and the second pile is lit to indicate the visit of friendly troops.
Therefore, when Tang Dao led his troops to arrive, Lei Xiong, Gong Shaoxun, Zhuang Shisan and others at the regiment headquarters had already been waiting for several miles to greet him.
Not only them, but all the troops in the Four Lines Regiment who were not on guard duty were alerted by the urgent call of trumpets and lined up to meet them.
Of course, these soldiers welcomed not only their top commanders, but also the last group of brothers who returned victoriously, as well as the rich supplies they captured.
All of these are worthy of these soldiers welcoming them back with the highest courtesy.
His eyes passed over the familiar faces of the leader Lei Xiong, Tantai Yunshu, Teacher Xiao He, etc. Tang Dao showed a smile and strode over.
"Salute!" Lei Xiong summoned all his strength and shouted.
All the members of the Four Lines Regiment present, including the sentries on duty up and down the mountain, all raised their right arms and gave a standard military salute to Tang Dao.
"Brothers, thank you for your hard work!" Tang Dao stood firm, returned the military salute seriously, and said to everyone in front of him.
"We are not working hard, the officers are working hard, and the brothers are working hard." Lei Xiong and the soldiers shouted in unison without lowering their hands in the military salute.
"Return the favor!" Peng Chong, commander of the rear guard company, also shouted in response.
"Swish!" The soldiers from the guard company and the convoy that was nearly a thousand meters behind the car returned the salute.
In this bright red sunset, more than 2,000 officers and soldiers from the same infantry regiment exchanged military salutes and looked at each other in silence.
Then, bright smiles appeared on their faces.
Because, at this point, the battle of the Four Elements Group has come to a complete and successful conclusion.
The convoys lined up like long snakes are piled full of grain bags, the faces of the soldiers that have been washed away by the gunpowder smoke, and the smiling faces that are gradually beginning to bloom like flowers are the best interpretation of this battle!
"Tonight, our group will also have a celebration banquet!" Tang Dao turned his eyes to the surroundings and announced loudly. "Now, go help me carry supplies!"
"Long live the group!"
"Long live sir!"
The soldiers lowered their arms and cheered loudly.
Based on their understanding of their leader, they knew that the celebration banquet would never be as simple as drinking wine and eating meat, and they had to announce the distribution of rewards.
And this time in the battle of Jindong, a lot of things were captured. I don't know how much reward Tang Tuanzuo can give to everyone.
The soldiers were sweating profusely while helping the baggage company unload the goods, while they were thinking about it in their minds. Some of them who couldn't hide things couldn't help but discuss it.
This is the same feeling as when farmers have a good year and look at the golden rice fields and figure out how much grain they can harvest this year!
However, it is still unknown until the regiment headquarters officially issues the notice.
The officers and soldiers were so happy that they were able to carry the food bags with great energy.
The handsome old man from Tantai had a smile on his face now. Seeing his daughter who had returned from the battlefield unscathed, his heart completely filled his stomach.
But some people are not very happy.
"Tang Dao, do you have the final say in your group of four, or does the chief of staff have the final say?" Teacher Xiao He gave Tang Da's group a scare in such a relatively happy atmosphere.
"Teacher He, could it be that Chief of Staff Zhuang failed to transport your machine tools back?" Tang Dao was slightly startled and looked at Master Zhuang.
Based on his knowledge of Zhuang Shisan, this army lieutenant colonel who came from the security corps was the person who knew him best.
As we all know, there are a total of two women in the Four Elements Group who cannot be messed with.
One is Tantai Mingyue, which has little to do with whether she is Tang Tuanzuo’s fiancée or not. That is Tantai Mingyue first and foremost a reporter. A pen in her hand can praise you to the heavens and trample you in the mud. What’s more, it’s even more terrible.
Or the captain of the medical team? Once injured, his life is in someone else's hands. Who dares to mess with this?
The other one is naturally Mr. Xiao He, the future chief designer of the Si Xing Regiment Arsenal. It is one thing that Tang Tuan Zuo treated him with great courtesy. In the future, can everyone use the three-edged bayonet and the one designed by Tang Tuan Zuo?
All pistols depend on this person.
The muzzle velocity of the warhead is 440 meters per second, and the effective range is more than 100 meters. The data written on the design drawing of the future pistol using 7.62 mm bullets can make these officers salivate.
They are all veterans, how could they not know the excellence of a pistol with an effective range of 100 meters?
Comparatively, the standard pistol equipped by the Japanese army is also the Southern Type 14 pistol currently equipped with the most equipment in the Four Lines Regiment. The muzzle velocity of the warhead is 317 meters per second, and the effective range is only 50 meters. It is simply a crushing level.
Don't underestimate the pistol. This lightest weapon cannot influence victory on the battlefield, but it is the last protection for officers. The effective range of up to 100 meters can fully enable them to compete with infantry. The terrifying initial velocity of the warhead will bring greater damage to the army.
The amount of damage, maybe as long as one shot is hit, the opponent will lose the ability to resist.
From the second lieutenant to the lieutenant colonel, everyone is looking forward to the R&D team headed by Mr. Xiao He to quickly build this gun. The seizure of so many machine tools and equipment in Lucheng this time has given everyone hope.
Even if Zhuang Shisan is one of the top figures in the Four Elements Group, he will not offend this person easily!
"Ask him yourself!" Teacher Xiao He said angrily.
"The group seats are like this," Master Zhuang explained with a wry smile on his face.
It turns out that this time the Four Corps Group not only had the hundreds of thousands of jins of grain transported back, but also had more than 200,000 jins of grain from Licheng. In addition, there were still hundreds of thousands of jins of grain that had not been shipped back from the 683 brigade.
Including corn, soybeans and other concentrated feeds for war horses and pack horses, the amount that can be eaten by humans alone is nearly 500,000 kilograms, which is nearly 250 tons in the future.
It is rare to find such a large granary in this mountainous area. If it is left in the wild and is not well protected and is eaten by voles and the like, it would be heartbreaking.
Therefore, Chief of Staff Zhuang Da focused on the large cave that Tang Dao had reserved for the exclusive use of the core area of the arsenal.
The cave is 25 meters high, 18 meters wide and 80 meters deep. In this area, not to mention 500,000 to 600,000 kilograms of grain, even if it were several times more, it could be accommodated. And it is rare that this cave is not anything.
The cave, located on a mountain wall, is warm in winter, cool and dry in summer, making it the perfect choice for a granary.
Therefore, Chief of Staff Zhuang Da kept his mouth shut, and the time he spent pestering Teacher Xiao He in the past few days would be misunderstood, if this person was not already married.
Teacher Xiao He finally reluctantly agreed for the sake of food, but there was always resentment and dissatisfaction.
Her reason is not wrong. Those precision machine tools are most afraid of dust, and food is dusty. What's even more troublesome is that this is the core area of the arsenal and is a confidential area. For this reason, Tang Dao has already been assigned to the arsenal.
A dedicated guard platoon, which will even be upgraded to the guard company level in the future.
The result is great. As soon as the granary was built, heavy troops came and went, and there were so many people and eyes, so what kind of secrets could there be?
Although they are all members of the regiment, the supply company will soon be mainly composed of new recruits, so there is no guarantee that there will not be some people who are alienated from people's hearts. Do you think Teacher Xiao He can't be depressed!
Seeing Tang Dao come back, he couldn't bear it anymore.
When Tang Dao heard this, he was a little confused.
Food is the foundation of the current Four Lines Regiment. Without this batch of food, the Four Lines Regiment would have no chance of establishing a firm foothold here; but the arsenal is the future of the Four Lines Regiment. Without the arsenal to continuously manufacture weapons, the Four Lines Regiment will be unable to survive.
If you want to fight against the Japanese army with the few weapons in your hand, it will only have the combat power of half a Japanese infantry regiment at most. If you encounter a Japanese infantry brigade, you will be blind.
"Well, Teacher Xiao He, don't be anxious. Give me some time, at least half a month, and I will move this batch of food and free up the space for the arsenal. Now that your arsenal has equipment and materials,
Aren’t there enough DC generators? It happens that there is no war during this period, so don’t be in a hurry to get any guns and ammunition. Just take this batch of materials first, make a batch of triangular army spines for me first, and equip a battalion first.
Come on." Tang Dao thought for a moment and gave Teacher Xiao He a reassurance.
"What, do you have the materials now?" Teacher Xiao He immediately changed his attention. "Don't fool me. The three-sided military thorn you asked for is too long and requires extremely high steel material, otherwise it will be very difficult.
It may be self-defeating because it will break with just one stab. There is no way that the products produced by our Hongyadong Arsenal are defective."
"Hongya Cave?" Tang Dao was stunned. This thing is on the edge of the Jialing River!
"It's a tooth, not a cliff!" Teacher Xiao He rolled his eyes, very anxious about Tang Tuanzuo's ability to understand.
It turns out that there is something very special about the fact that this cliff is not the other. The reason why it is called "red" is because it was the dusk before the expedition and the sunset was as red as today. The sunlight just covered the cliffs on the left and right sides of the cave.
Like a red battle flag.
Standing below the entrance of the cave, watching the soldiers marching in rows but not daring to see them off in person, Teacher Xiao He had some hope. He hoped that he would return from this expedition as victorious as before. This natural red battle flag was specially sent by God.
came down.
And what about ‘teeth’?
But looking at it from a distance, the entrance of the cave looks like the open mouth of a giant beast, and the rocks standing at the entrance of the cave are the sharp teeth in the mouth of the giant beast, which are extremely aggressive.
At the same time, teeth are also the hardest bones in the human body.
Therefore, red represents victory, and teeth mean that they will become a weapon for the Chinese to fight back against invaders.
This will become the spirit of all personnel in the arsenal.
Don't tell me, the name Teacher Xiao He was given was so impressive that Tang Dao almost thought she had also traveled through time.
Whenever the protagonist in future special soldier novels is either Dragon Ya or Wolf Ya, it really makes Tang Dao, the king of individual soldiers without any name, feel ashamed!
But Tang Dao still gave a thumbs up to Teacher Xiao He: "Senior intellectuals are just different. A name can make so much sense, so I won't accept it."
"Then what you said, do you think we know how to write romantic poems and songs in school? That's what those idle people did." Teacher Xiao He proudly puffed out his small chest.
But he didn't notice that the handsome old Tantai guy over there had a dark face.
It seems that no one here except him is playing this!
"Haha, isn't this the person the officer said, 'Nothing is wrong during the day, nothing is wrong at night'!" Li Jijin's man bared his teeth and laughed at Zhao Daqiang, Qian Dazhu and others beside him.
Qian Dazhu glanced at the handsome middle-aged guy over there with veins popping out of his forehead, and whispered: "Brother Jiujin, stop talking, Teacher Tantai's face is not good-looking."
"Why?" Li Jijin obviously hasn't reacted yet.
"Because I like to write poems and paint the most, but I don't use birds!" The handsome middle-aged man almost spit in Li Jiujin's face. "No, I'm confused by you asshole, I have a use for birds."
Captain Li Dal has been in the military camp for more than ten years and has never seen any formations. Even if Tang Dao trains him, he dares to talk to Tang Daopo. But at this moment, he can only shrink his neck like a quail.
, endure it!
I don’t even dare to wipe the saliva off my face now!
In fact, Lao Tantai is also an awesome person. In the past half month since arriving at Dakouzi Cave, he has not rested for half a day. He ran around saying he was painting, but the painting did not come out. Instead, he drew a sketch map first.
Where there are mountains, where there are waters, where there are roads, the drawings are clear.
This thing is simply a sandbox drawn on paper. If the Japanese army came to attack the Dakouzidong area that day, this map might save the lives of countless people in the Four Lines Regiment.
In the Four Lines Regiment, no one relies on their status to gain respect. Even the highest officer, Tang Dao, the reason why he can be respected has never been his rank of colonel, but his ability to lead everyone to win battles.
Survive!
The same goes for Tantai Yunshu. The status of the future father-in-law of the leader of the Four Elements Group may make people treat him with respect and courtesy, and the money he once sent for emergency relief may make people treat him with courtesy, but it will never make someone with great military exploits.
The infantry company commander held back his saliva.
Especially before the map is finished!
"Hey, Captain Tang, please tell me what kind of steel it is, I'm going to have a look!" Seeing the middle-aged handsome guy getting angry, even a teacher as powerful as Xiao He had to stay away from him for a while.
"Is it possible to make tanks out of steel?" Tang Dao pursed his lips in the distance.
"That's good!" Teacher Xiao He turned from anger to joy and stretched out his hand. "Let's go, brothers, go and see the properties of our arsenal."
A group of students and company platoon leaders followed Teacher Xiao He and ran toward the steel blocks that were blasted into pieces, fearing that if they ran slower, they would suffer disaster in the fish pond.
The old handsome guy from Tantai looked at these big soldiers, including his students, who seemed to have unkind eyes, so he saw that his daughter's eyes were softer.
And Tang Dao
The once classic and elegant Jiangnan girl seems to have gone astray!
When did you develop the temperament of a big sister?
Are the rough guys in the Four Elements Group so poisonous?
This chapter has been completed!