Because Liu Aba's body was not brought back and the independent regiment did not hold a ceremony, in order not to expose Xia Wenyun as an insider, they could only keep the matter secret for now and wait until the special forces returned to hold a memorial ceremony.
Although Liu Lang was reluctant to admit it, he knew very well that Liu Aba, who had sacrificed his life, might be the first one, but he was definitely not the last one. Whether in the tropical rainforest or in the ice and snow, the special forces were not gods, and they would also be ruthlessly killed.
Bullet hit.
Regarding this, Liu Lang has already had enough psychological preparation. He has experienced many life-and-death separations in his previous life. As powerful as the Long Yan Army, there are five or six casualties in missions every year, not to mention that these are just rookies.
soldiers. But Liu Lang was still sad and moved by the soldiers' sacrifices. They could have refused this seemingly unreasonable military order issued by him. After all, it seems to be a peaceful time on the surface.
Even if it has long been shrouded in the clouds of war.
But Liu Lang had to do this. They must become the sharpest blades of the Independent Regiment in the future war with the Japanese invaders. And if they want to be sharp blades, without blood and fire, without the test of life and death, they will always be just a gang.
Rookies. No matter how well they perform on the training ground, they will even be killed by a veteran who has experienced many battles when they first enter the battlefield.
The advantage of special forces does not lie in their equipment or tactics and training, but in their honing of walking on the edge of life and death. Their tenacity is far greater than that of ordinary soldiers and their right decision-making at the moment of life and death is their capital that surpasses ordinary soldiers.
And these can only be given to them by constant fighting.
The intelligence of the special forces fighting in tropical rainforests and ice and snow has basically been reported after the New Year. Except for Zeng Shui and Erhuo Nan who were killed in Jehol, two special forces teams led by Yu Xiancheng were looking for pirates to "play" in the Strait of Malacca.
We also encountered great difficulties.
After being attacked by this group of special forces from China several times in a row, the pirates became very smart. They gathered again, but this time they did not foolishly go to the lair of the unknown force with extremely powerful combat capabilities.
What kind of attack? The reputation of Shanying and the others for annihilating more than 800 pirates in that battle has already spread throughout the Sumanda Sea. Those who attack Sumanda Island are those who have been squeezed in the head.
They gathered together, not to attack, but to defend. Under the huge deterrent formed by the 30 special forces led by Yu Xiancheng, in order to survive, they began to huddle together to keep warm.
More than a dozen pirate gangs with dozens of people gathered together to form a large pirate group with hundreds or even thousands of people, and they spared no effort to operate their lair.
Special forces are not gods. The combat effectiveness of 30 people may be comparable to the combat effectiveness of hundreds or even two hundred of those scumbag pirates, but it is definitely not like "Rambo" going crazy in the subtropical jungle and fighting against hundreds of Annan soldiers.
It is the product of self-narcosis by American cowboys. No matter how good Rambo is, if he encounters a group of pirates armed with rifles and submachine guns in unfamiliar terrain, he will have to take a break.
Originally, Yu Xiancheng could use special operations to deal with these guys hiding in turtle shells, that is, roam around the pirate lair, hide inside if you can, and then retreat as soon as they come out to kill you. As time goes by, there is no need to attack.
, the pirates who are at odds with each other will have civil strife.
But the idea is good, but it is not in Sichuan, where they can continuously obtain supplies. The reality they face is that it is extremely difficult to obtain fuel for the steamer's voyage. They want to get some weapons and ammunition from Malaysia, thousands of miles away.
It's not difficult. The greedy guys stationed in the colonies of the Sun Never Sets Empire will even dare to sell you their own guns as long as they look at the gold bars and US dollars and pounds.
But if it were oil, it would be too difficult to obtain. It's not that they don't sell it, but the distance is too far, and Yu Xiancheng and the others don't have large ships as a means of transportation. Unable to obtain a large amount of oil, they only have time to roam around waiting for opportunities to attack.
can be significantly reduced. In January, if it were not for the old friend Colonel Taylor of the Third Reich passing by the waters of Sumanda Island again and "generously" taking away forty large yellow croakers and leaving five tons of fuel, special
The five small steamers driven by the team are about to collapse.
To be honest, Colonel Taylor really takes good care of his regular customers. You know, one large yellow croaker is equivalent to ten taels of gold. According to the current market price, if converted into oceans, it will only cost about 400 silver oceans, and forty large yellow croakers will only cost 400 taels.
The total gold and oceans are only 16,000 silver oceans.
Some people who are good at calculation may say, Damn you, the foreign hair is so black. Five tons of fuel can cost more than 10,000 oceans, which is enough to pay more than 1,000 soldiers for one month. But,
That’s because you don’t know the price of gasoline in China during the Republic of China.
During the Republic of China, how much did a car cost when imported from abroad? In fact, no matter how expensive it was, the market price of an ordinary Ford sedan was only 12,000 oceans, and the rich could still afford it. However,
Even in Shanghai, the most prosperous city in the East, cars are not a common equipment used by wealthy people to show off.
The reason is very simple. Cars are not cheap to begin with, but fuel is even more expensive. The expensive price makes it difficult for the rich. The price of one liter of gasoline was 15 cents per liter in 1928, and it became 40 cents per liter in 1932.
This was good for the rich and not expensive. But in 1935, because the government issued a purchase restriction order, each car could only purchase fifteen liters of fuel per month. This was at a time when the fuel consumption was 178 liters per 100 kilometers.
For a car, it almost means that you will run out of gas after just two laps on the street.
Of course, this is all caused by China's lack of oil. Otherwise, if Sichuan found a small oil field with an annual output of less than 50,000 tons, the bald man would be excited and send a group into Sichuan to guard it.
Of course, the so-called purchase restriction order is nothing to the comprador central government, which is fundamentally rotten. As long as you give money, the purchase restriction order is nothing. The fuel flowing out from the black market is so expensive that it will make you vomit blood. Every liter of fuel
As high as five yuan, the price has increased tenfold. A purchase restriction order did not allow the country to store enough fuel. Instead, a large amount of money fell into the pockets of some people.
Calculated this way, five tons of fuel only costs 16,000 oceans, and the average price per ton is only more than 3,000 oceans. It is much cheaper than the domestic black market oil price, and it can be considered a reasonable price.
Of course, what Colonel Taylor was selling was public oil, and what the big yellow croaker pocketed was his own pocket. Anyway, he would never lose money.
Faced with such a difficult situation encountered by the special forces in Nanyang, Liu Lang's message back was very simple. If there are conditions, he must send it, and if there are no conditions, he must create conditions. As long as sufficient security is ensured, pirates must loot.
Even if they cannot be annihilated, they must be killed until they give in and run away. No other armed forces are allowed to exist in the thousands of miles of sea from Sumanda Island to the entrance to the Strait of Malacca.
If there are problems in Nanyang, it will not be smooth sailing in northern China.
Except for the special forces who sneaked into the three northeastern provinces, most of them fought in individual groups. Zeng Shui and Diao Ye in Rehe Province fought in conjunction with Deng Wen's Department in Qinglong Mountain, and Cai Dadao, Niu Er, and Shi Datou fought in conjunction with Sun Yongqin's Department.
But after the New Year, it was they who encountered the biggest crisis.
Just like in the past, the Japanese invaders were targeting them.
After encountering several blows, they gave up the struggle with Qinglong Mountain, which was hundreds of miles away, and concentrated heavy troops to encircle and suppress Sun Yongqin's troops, which already numbered more than 4,000 people.
What is different from the previous time and space is that this time Sun Yongqin's troops have sufficient ammunition reserves, food and grass, and the training of several instructors who came from the regular army, and their combat effectiveness is much stronger than that of them in the previous time and space.
But even so, after taking advantage of the terrain in the mountainous area to severely damage two infantry regiments of the Japanese Kwantung Army stationed in Rehe under the First Mixed Brigade, the Kwantung Army Headquarters became angry and took advantage of the Chinese New Year to deploy another infantry regiment from the Kwantung Army.
A brigade newly transferred from Japan to join one of the seventeen standing divisions of the Kwantung Army stationed in Manchukuo was determined to wipe out this group of "Chinese bandits" like maggots in the Chengde Mountains.
The news came from Xia Wenyun, but because the Kwantung Army headquarters kept this operation extremely confidential, it did not even involve the Intelligence Section of the General Staff Department. By the time Xia Wenyun found out, the brigade had already set off from the Puppet Manchukuo for a week.
By the time Liu Lang received the secret message, they would have almost reached Rehe by now.
A standing division brigade of the Japanese army is equipped with two infantry regiments with more than 7,000 people, plus the first brigade. Although a lot of manpower is wasted because it has to garrison various strongholds in Jehol, there will definitely be an artillery brigade.
Assistance, such a huge force is definitely not something Sun Yongqin and his more than 4,000 people can match.
After receiving Xia Wenyun's confidential message, several senior leaders of the Independent Regiment paced back and forth with serious expressions. Liu Lang, who rushed back to the regiment headquarters after receiving the news, took a look at the message, but an out-of-place smile appeared on his face.
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The 3 updates of 2000 words are almost done. On May Day, Fengyue is not going out, can you try to update a few more chapters? Wow, it seems that we are still more than 100 votes away from the sixth place in the military category.