Mr. Long's visit was just a small episode for the supplementary regiment who was busy with training. The shock caused by the tank to the officers and soldiers was quickly overwhelmed by heavy training.

But Mr. Long said it was right before. An isolated tank was useless for any unit. In order to make the tanks of the supplementary regiment join the combat sequence as soon as possible, Qi Heng had to pick out a group of smarter ones from the veterans of each battalion and form a new chariot platoon for the supplementary regiment.

Lu Sicheng, who has newly joined the supplementary regiment, served as the lieutenant platoon leader of the chariot platoon, and was responsible for training the coordinated combat between infantry and tanks in the chariot platoon.

That's right, the platoon of the tanks of the supplementary regiment is actually just a mix of a row of infantry and a small tank. After Qi Heng, Shangguan Youhao and Lu Sicheng discussed with several officers who had been in contact with tank combat methods, a platoon of infantry would accompany this No. 78 Vickers amphibious tank, which was not enough to fight but was more than enough to be fooled. The main task of the platoon of the tanks was to act as assault forces in the attack battle and cover the infantry to pull out the Japanese machine gun firepower points.

After all, the Vicks tank, which was only equipped with a 7.7mm machine gun, could only bully the Japanese light machine gun positions. If the Japanese pull out an infantry cannon or even a few grenade launchers, then the small tank could only be depressed.

After finalizing the use of the tank, Qi Heng also took the time to consider his own personal issues.

As early as when Qi Heng was promoted to the captain's commander, he immediately wrote a letter to tell his mother who was far away in Chongqing. In fact, he was relatively calm and did not feel too excited. He wrote a letter just to reassure his mother, not intending to show off anything.

So Qi Heng told his mother in the letter that, "If you are a leader, you rarely need to go to the front line."

But Qi Heng soon regretted it because he always reported good news but not bad news, which seemed to give his mother, who was in the back, some illusion. After learning that Qi Heng was promoted to the leader of the group, the letters he sent showed deep concerns between the lines:

Worries about Qi Heng’s future emotional life and family continuation.

The mother may really not know Qi Heng’s situation, or it may be an illusion that she deliberately made to make Qi Heng pretend not to know, or to rely on her wife, children and family to tie Qi Heng up to prevent him from falling into danger again. In short, Qi Heng was urged to get married.

No one dared to tell Qi Heng about this. After all, except for Wu Weiguo who took the time to get married in Wuhan, the other officers in the regiment were either Shangguan Youhao who had no idea about getting married at all, or Xu Guanghui who looked like he was hard to get a wife, let alone Zhu Gusheng, a regular brothel like him.

In a group of bachelors, I’m talking about being urged to get married, and it’s not that I feel uncomfortable.

And Qi Heng himself also has his own plans:

After the war in Nanchang, he and the young nurse Liu Xuanhe wrote more and more letters. Now they have changed from one or two letters a month to one or two letters a week. Sometimes before the previous letter was delivered, the second letter was delivered again. Qi Heng was still taking the time to meet Liu Xuanhe in his busy schedule, but unfortunately the time was too short, and the two chatted for a while before they separated.

In the eyes of other officers who knew the details of the supplementary regiment, Qi Heng and Liu Xuanhe were just a couple who were just a short shot, but the two parties involved were very thin-skinned and refused to break the window paper.

Just now, under the instigation and instigation of several other people, Qi Heng finally plucked up the courage to meet Liu Xuanhe again, with the reason being to teach Liu Xuanhe how to use a pistol. As for whether he would say something after teaching, only Qi Heng himself knew.

Unfortunately, the day before Qi Heng decided to leave, a telegram from the head of the Ninth War Zone completely disrupted his plan.

"The Japanese army has been mobilized frequently recently, and its main force may have the intention of invading the south. The war zone is determined to lure the enemy deep into the area north of Changsha, gather forces to attack the enemy to annihilate it, so as to set a precedent for victory in the second phase of the War of Resistance.

The training of the theater's direct supplementary regiment has been completed. It is planned to use the 4th, 70th, 74th, 5th, 99th, newly formed 6th Army and 11th Division, and the theater's direct supplementary regiment as the theater's general reserve team. It will gather in the south of Changsha and northern Jiangxi to support the operations and ensure the success of the main forces in the theater.

This order has been reached. No matter how big or small the officers of each department are, except for those who have other military affairs, shall not leave their troops without permission. Those who violate military laws shall be engaged in the violation of military law.”

The military orders were like mountains, and Qi Heng could only put his love aside and concentrate on staying in the army and waiting for the next order.

This wait took half a month.

On the night of September 14, the 106th Japanese Division took the lead in attacking the 184th Division of the National Army stationed in Huibu. After capturing Huibu, the troops were divided into two groups, defeating the national army several times in succession, and occupied Gao'an County on the 19th.

Gao'an's geographical location is very important. Gao'an's fall made Xue Yue, the commander-in-chief of the Ninth War Zone, very annoyed. Under Xue Yue's strict order, the 32nd Army, which had just abandoned Gao'an, could only reorganize its troops and launch a counterattack on Gao'an.

Because the Japanese army's early offensive was very fierce, the Ninth War Zone had to mobilize the war zone reserves in advance, and the 74th Army stationed in the Shanggao area was also ordered to set off to reinforce Gao'an. Qi Heng's supplementary regiment was stationed between the 74th Army and Gao'an, so a new order was also sent to the radio station of the supplementary regiment:

Immediately dispatched to assist the 32nd Army and counterattack Gao An.

This is the first battle since the establishment of the Supplementary League and an opportunity to test the results of the Supplementary League’s training. However, such a test requires blood and fire to submit a satisfactory answer sheet.

Qi Heng was naturally unwilling to end the first battle of the supplementary regiment in failure, so in this battle, the entire regiment of the supplementary regiment was dispatched, with Hongliang's first battalion and the mortar company directly under the regiment headquarters, and the heavy machine gun company as the first echelon, responsible for the main attack, Zhugusheng's second battalion and the combat chariot platoon as the second echelon, serving as cover, and Xu Guanghui's third battalion as the reserve team, Qi Heng was determined to concentrate the strength of the entire regiment to give the Japanese army on the opposite side a head-on attack.

Before the attack, Qi Heng learned through the radio that the Japanese army that captured Gao An was a mixed detachment commanded by Major General Saege Yoshihiro Sae, the commander of the 101st Infantry Brigade, but the specific force was unknown. The nameless highland that the supplementary regiment needed to capture was a small hill surrounded by paddy fields on three sides, about a hundred meters high, without trees covering it, and the view from the mountain was very wide.

The direction of the attack of the supplementary regiment was blocked by paddy fields. If it was on weekdays, if you wanted to climb the high ground, you could only walk on the narrow ridges of the paddy fields, or simply cross the paddy fields, and shuttled between knee-high water and waist-high rice. However, the Nanchang battle in March completely destroyed the farming plan of surrounding farmers. The paddy fields here had long been abandoned. Not only did there be no rice, but even the craters left before were vividly remembered.

Although the offensive troops did not have to travel hard in the paddy fields, another huge difficulty was placed in front of the supplementary regiment: the abandoned paddy fields now form a large open area, hundreds of meters long, and the knee-length weeds and neat ridges on the ground could not be used as shelter. How the offensive troops would break through this open area of ​​hundreds of meters long to reach the Japanese position on the mountain has become the most troublesome problem for the officers of the supplementary regiment.
Chapter completed!