However, the assessment of military merit is not something that can be accomplished overnight.
Combat merits are first tallied internally by each battalion and the company directly under the regiment headquarters, approved, and then reported to the regiment political office for final approval.
Although Tang Dao also said that there is no quota limit for military merit at all levels this time, as long as it is convincing enough, it can be approved, but that infantry battalion does not want to fight for its own interests for the meritorious officials in its battalion?
Ye Chenghuan, who was in charge of this matter, had a big headache. Those company commanders who were directly under him could only talk about their soldiers under the pretense of reporting on their work. Battalion commanders like Leng Feng, Shangguan Yun, and Guo Shouzhi also took turns coming to his place to eat at meal time.
Even Lei Xiong, the second-in-command, knocked on his door at twelve o'clock in the night and yelled with a frown: "Old Ye, let's go, let's have a drink!"
From everyone's point of view, those officers and soldiers with detailed information are naturally people with great military exploits, but Ye Chenghuan knows that he must strictly control the situation and not allow military exploits at all levels to spread. Military medals are worthless and hurt.
The first is the courage of the officers and soldiers when fighting the enemy.
When Ye Chenghuan couldn't withstand the pressure from all sides, he also talked to Tang Dao. He hoped that Tang Dao would simply limit the number of people to death as before. In this case, he could completely make the battalion and company commanders give up based on the quota limit.
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"My Director Ye, why do we spend a lot of money to get these military merits and medals? That reflects the system and spirit of our regiment's system and spirit of rewarding meritorious service. In the past, we were poor, so we were given a quota limit, but now we have enough financial reserves. We
We can no longer pick and pinch, and we can't chill the hearts of those meritorious ministers who bravely fought against the Japanese invaders on the battlefield.
Of course, while ensuring that all brothers who are qualified to evaluate military merit at all levels receive due rewards, we must also exclude those who have merit for favors, pensions, sacrifices, and injured brothers. All brothers who have sacrificed and injured have corresponding pensions. This must not be regarded as welfare.
, otherwise the damage to morale will be great.
There is another point that you must be aware of no matter what. In principle, those above the company level cannot achieve first-class military exploits unless they have achieved astonishing feats.
Letting you take charge of this matter is not just because you sit in the position of director of the political department, but because you are upright and upright and known to the whole group. I believe that you will be able to make a fair, just and public evaluation of the military merit assessment." Tang Dao Yitong said.
Deception, finally deceived Director Ye, who had a head as big as a bucket, and became lame.
Then early the next morning, Tuanzuo Tang ran away, leaving behind the extremely busy chief officers in the regimental headquarters.
The chief officers of the regiment have divided their respective responsibilities in the past half month. Lei Xiong is responsible for welcoming the safe arrival of the chief officers of the division, brigade and regiment who were invited by Tang Dao and his wife.
With Tang Dao's connections, the 921st Division of the 80th Army alone has a division commander, two brigade commanders, four regiment commanders and seven or eight battalion commanders coming. Commander Li of the 22nd Army also said that if we add the ones from far away
The Thirty-Eighth Army, the Twelfth Army, etc. from Zhongtiao Mountain are not to mention one hundred, but fifty generals who are coming.
But now it is still wartime, and we have to pass through the Japanese-occupied areas. The troops responsible for picking up these guests have used nearly a thousand cavalry battalions, reconnaissance companies, and mountain infantry companies, and there are 20 squads.
Among them, we are also responsible for liaison, which can be imagined to be difficult.
In Lei Xiong's words, the intensity of this work is comparable to fighting a Shanxi-Dong war.
Ye Chenghuan was in charge of assessing military merit, and the intricate balance of interpersonal relationships made the hair of the 25-year-old third-in-command of the Four-Hong Group begin to fall out.
Gong Shaoxun returned to the regiment on January 26. The chief of staff who was responsible for weapons research and development and funding docking has gained a lot in the past six months.
Chief of Staff Gong, who led an armed transport team back to Dakouzidong Town through mountains and rivers, not only brought back 30,000 ounces of pure gold and 1.5 million ocean funds to the team, but also brought back Grunov's finally successfully developed and mass-produced the
Produced by MG42.
Gold and oceans are 'gifts' from the other side of the ocean. Of course, they are only a small part of the funds exchanged for the right to use the patent for 'penicillin'.
As early as October, the little foreign girl who kept her promise originally planned to withdraw US dollars in cash from Citibank to Tang Dao. Although it didn't take long, it already amounted to US$5 million, but Tang Dao refused.
What Tang Dao wants now is not money, he needs food, a lot of food! There is also the three-wheeled motorcycle he originally planned and the various machine tools and materials Grunov needs.
It is easy to transport these things to Jincheng, but it is not so easy to transport them to Taihang Mountain.
It was Laura who turned around and signed a coal import contract with the Manchuria club, and agreed to deliver it in grain and steel.
Where has the most coal? Naturally, it’s Shanxi Province.
Since the Japanese North China Front Army now needs to use up a limited amount of transportation capacity to mobilize troops to fight in China's Second Theater, the club obtained the consent of the North China Front Army Headquarters, and the Rockefeller China Branch organized its own transportation team to go to Jin Province to haul goods.
Deliver the grain shipped to China by ship to the original city.
There, the Manchuria Club could sell part of the grain to the army to provide enough military rations, and part of it could be sold in Jin Province.
At this point, a convoy of 150 trucks with a pass from the North China Front Army Headquarters was established.
In just one transportation, up to 300 tons of grain or other materials were transported.
The Rockefeller Company has left a huge profit margin for the company, and the officers at all levels of the Japanese North China Front will receive dividends from the company. The transport convoys with the national flags of Japan and the United States are almost walking sideways in Shanxi Province.
The only people who are not afraid of them may be the Chinese army that is active in the mountains of the occupied areas. Convoys transporting supplies have been hijacked twice.
However, the Chinese are probably also afraid of causing international disputes, so they basically only rob supplies without killing people or burning cars. If the people in the convoy cooperate, they will also throw in some game or something in exchange.
The Chinese were provoking. The Japanese soldiers, who were always late, looked at a few foreigners in suits and ties who seemed to be planning to have a barbecue outdoors. The ingredients were all fresh and dripping with blood. They almost vomited three liters of blood.
But there is nothing you can do no matter how angry you are. It has been almost two years. Even though the Japanese North China Front occupied most of North China, from the beginning to the end, the only place the Japanese army could control was the county town. The vast countryside really had little to do with them.
Not to mention that the foreign convoys would be robbed, even the Japanese army's own military columns and transport convoys were never said to be peaceful. They were robbed, burned and killed by the Chinese army active in the mountains with one hand and two hands.
I can't even count my feet.
Fortunately, the Rockefeller Company is very generous. When it encounters such losses, it will bear 70% of the losses, and only let the Japanese side bear 30%. The Japanese side is extremely grateful.
In just two months, Rockefeller Company's reputation within Japan's North China Front Command was so high that even General Shan Shanyuan personally hosted a banquet for Laura and other senior officials of Rockefeller's China branch.
That is, if the Japanese army general knew that it was this convoy, he spent a year and a half using the difference between the actual transportation and the reported figures and the 'plunder' agreed with the Eightyth Army to give the Fourth Army Group
After transporting at least 5,000 tons of grain and various materials, will anyone be angry enough to ascend to heaven?
Because of the need for such "whitewashing", the price of this batch of materials was nearly 8 times higher than the actual price. However, fortunately, the Four Lines Group had the golden doll of "penicillin" and could still hold on.
As for the 30,000 ounces of gold and 1.5 million oceans, Tang Dao asked Laura to exchange them for fractions. The gold was mainly used for medals. Tang Dao even had the idea that in the future, if financial resources allowed, at the end of every war
Afterwards, a commemorative medal was distributed to each member of the group.
The medal does not have to be very valuable. 10 grams of gold mixed with 10 grams of silver is both a commemoration and an inspiration.
And these 1.5 million Dayang are not all used for rewards. Although the government has long banned Dayang and promoted legal tender, Dayang has never stopped using it, no matter where it is.
Moreover, Tang Dao knew that as the war progressed, especially after Japan began to use a large amount of counterfeit legal currency to impact China's financial market, the devaluation of legal currency was astonishing.
Before the war started in 1937, 100 French coins could buy two big cows; by the beginning of 1939, you could only buy one big cow; in 1940, you could only buy one calf; in 1941, don't even think about cattle, 100 French coins only bought you one big cow.
You can buy a pig; in 1942, you can buy a pig leg; in 1943, the pig leg turns into a hen; in 1946, 100 French currency can only buy an egg.
Don’t think that this is the end of legal currency. Just like the Chinese stock market in the future, there is no minimum, only lower. 100 legal currency in 1948 could only buy 4 grains of rice.
Therefore, this time, the special envoy Chen sent tens of millions of French currency on a special plane. It will not take long for his purchasing power to shrink to less than half. And the Si Xing Regiment is still in the Taihang Mountains, and many soldiers' money cannot be sent back.
The family can only save everything, and Tang Dao can never watch the wealth they gained with their lives disappear like this.
Tang Dao planned to use the ocean to exchange the legal currency in the hands of the officers and soldiers, and then spend as much of the legal currency as possible. Just spending it from the stingy old man was not enough. After Tang Dao returned, he met with the Zhengzhou merchants headed by Boss Qian for a day.
It was decided to establish a joint-stock trading company. Si Xing Tuan, the representative shareholder, Tantai Old Handsome Guy, would hold 70% of the shares, and the remaining 30% would be divided among others, with a total investment of 5 million French currency.
The head office is located in Chang'an City, and a branch is set up in Zhengcheng, which was not captured by the Japanese army. The company's only business is to purchase grain.
No matter if it’s corn, wheat or rice, whether it’s fresh rice or old rice, I want them all!
Of course, when people everywhere are cracking down on hoarding, the company only buys food in small batches and sells it in even smaller batches. The purchase and sale prices are strictly in accordance with the market price and will never increase the price.
The old grain will never be sold.
Although Boss Qian and others don't quite understand the meaning of Tang Dao, they invest a lot of money but make no money. Even if they store some grain, it is mostly old grain. Not only does this require a large amount of granary storage, but the longer it takes, the more losses will be incurred.
But this group of businessmen are all monkey spirit people. Perhaps in their view, Tang Dao is losing money but not making a profit, but the year 1938 made them believe in one thing even more. During the New Year of 1938,
They decided that investing in Tang Dao was the most correct choice.
The business may suffer losses, but long-term investment in Tang Dao can lead to huge profits. Originally, Tang Dao planned to invest independently, but in the end, these businessmen demanded 30% of the shares in order to completely separate themselves and Tang Dao.
Tie tightly.
Perhaps the businessmen were profit-seeking, but these businessmen from Zhengcheng never expected that it was their decision that allowed them to do the most successful business in their lives.
It's not because they chose Tang Dao, but because they will have the power to save millions of people in Henan Province one day.
Two years later, a catastrophic disaster will befall the land of Henan Province, killing millions of lives.
From now on, all Tang Dao's food hoarding plans are not for the Four Elements Regiment and the armies in the Taihang Mountains, but to prepare for the possible catastrophe.
Chenliang is better than bark and leaves than Guanyin soil!
When new funds arrive in the spring, Tang Dao will continue to use the armies in Dayang, Taihang Mountains, and Zhongtiao Mountains to exchange for legal currency, and then continue to invest in the trading company named "Yusheng"
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Gong Shaoxun brought back 96 MG42 machine guns to the regiment. These seemingly crude machine guns were initially disliked by the company commanders.
But when the machine gun shooters put these machine guns in the shooting position and fired at the wooden target 300 meters away, a group of country bumpkin company commanders headed by Li Jijin couldn't let go of the machine guns.
In their original impression, the MG34 machine gun with its cold appearance and astonishing rate of fire was already the most powerful machine gun in the world.
The world's first general-purpose machine gun, which can be used as both a light machine gun and a heavy machine gun, and has an incredible rate of fire, is indeed qualified to make soldiers intoxicated.
The MG42 machine gun, which was born on the basis of the MG34 machine gun, uses stamping parts, so its appearance is far inferior to that of the MG34, which uses forged parts. But the battlefield is not about appearance, but practicality.
The maximum rate of fire of the MG42 reached 1,500 rounds per minute. The wooden target made of cypress trees was visibly broken into pieces in the flames of the MG42.
With this machine gun, once the firepower is fully activated, the Japanese will die as many as they come.
Moreover, once the gun fires continuously, the sound of "Puff, Puff, Puff" is like tearing apart cloth, which makes people's hair stand on end. This is something that the MG34 has never had.
"Tearer!" This is the vivid nickname given to this machine gun by Heizi, who personally fired 500 rounds of ammunition.
"This gun will become a squad light machine gun! Each machine gun is equipped with 2,000 rounds of ammunition in daily life, and each machine gun is equipped with 3,000 rounds of ammunition in wartime. Each machine gun is equipped with a shooter, and the deputy shooter is also the ammunition hand with 1,000 rounds of ammunition. The remaining bullets are to be carried by
The rest of the infantry squad will help carry it." Seeing how the company commanders couldn't put it down, Tang Dao announced the use of the new machine gun on the training ground.
"Long live sir!" The company commanders all cheered like children who got a toy.
Even if there were MG34s in the past, because there were not enough, they could only be used as firepower at the company and platoon level. At the infantry squad level, only Czech light machine guns could be used. When encountering a large-scale Japanese charge, the low-rate light machine guns could not form an effective weapon at all.
Suppressive firepower also relies on the assistance of semi-automatic rifles and submachine guns in the infantry squad.
But what if the infantry squad suffers too many casualties and cannot form continuous firepower in a short period of time and relies on the light machine gun to block it?
This is the reason why Leng Feng and Shangguan Yun suffered so many casualties during the Battle of Jiulong Mountain. As long as the MG34 machine guns at the company and platoon levels could not respond in time, the Japanese troops relying on their numbers might rush to the front of the position and use grenades to cause heavy casualties to the infantry.
Casualties, Czech-style light machine guns are obviously no longer capable of meeting the current needs of the Four Troops.
But with the "cloth tearing machine", unless the Japanese army used artillery or grenade launchers to blow this terrifying firepower point into pieces together with the machine guns, numbers would no longer be a threat.
The battle of Longyan was the most typical example. The Japanese army without infantry artillery was like lining up to be shot.
This may also be the most beautiful gift that company commanders receive before the New Year!
Chief of Staff Gong Da, who brought a surprise to the whole regiment, was also miserable. He not only had to allocate the remaining 2,000 people of the Sichuan Army's new regiment to four infantry battalions, but also was responsible for the location and layout of the party venue.
Neither job was easy to do. This time, the four major infantry battalions, artillery battalions and supply battalions suffered losses, especially the third and fourth battalions suffered the heaviest losses.
Although the Sixings Regiment still has soldiers from their hometown brought by Deputy Lei Tuan as supplements, the remaining 2,000 soldiers of the Sichuan Army's new regiment who have experienced the Battle of Sizhou Mountain are no longer new recruits. The life and death battle in the past ten days has destroyed them.
They have all become veterans. After being organized into an infantry battalion, they can be put into actual combat without much adjustment. Which battalion commander doesn't want that?
The battalion and company commanders almost drank Chief of Staff Gong Da to death under the banner of "Long Time No See".
Long time no see. For comrades, what else can you do besides drinking and eating meat? Is it possible that a few grown men can’t hold each other and cry together? That’s not possible! After drinking, they can discuss the vacancies in their own battalions and companies. Isn’t that normal?
Isn’t it work communication?
In this area, almost all Chinese people are self-taught.
Compared with Lei Xiong, Ye Chenghuan, and Gong Shaoxun who are busy and troubled, the work of the Logistics Director Zhuang Shisan is simpler. He is responsible for purchasing various supplies for celebrating the New Year.
The food was fine, the soldiers had no other requirements. Regardless of whether they were in the south or the north, as long as Chinese people could eat dumplings, it would be considered a New Year.
There is no shortage of rice and noodles in the four-element dumplings, but the meat is really difficult to cook!
What Tang Tuanzuo requested was a grand celebration between the military and civilians. The entire army of the Four-Hong Regiment, including military personnel, plus people from inside and outside the town, plus guests from afar, would have to be more than 3,000 entourage, both here and outside.
Together with Riga, if there is not 30,000, there must be 25,000.
One pound of meat per capita, and Dakouzidong Town is not in Shaanxi Province. All counties and towns have collected 300,000 pounds of meat. Seeing that the New Year is approaching, five or six hundred troops have been sent out, but none of them have been purchased yet.
Ten thousand kilograms of meat can make Director Zhuang’s hair turn gray.
Of course, Tang Da Tuanzuo, who left his colleagues and ran away, did not have much ease.
He is not busy, but it is more annoying than busy.
Riding a green horse and wearing a military uniform with a straight waist, Tang Tuanzuo looked into the distance with a rare nervousness on his face.
Tantai Mingyue on the side looked a little funny, but she said softly: "My grandma is very easy to get along with. Besides, I'm not here! What are you afraid of?"
Farther away, the handsome old man from Tantai, who was looking forward to it, secretly curled his lips.
He had admitted that the little cotton-padded jacket had leaked for a long time, but the leakage was beyond his imagination. He wondered if his wife would be as distressed as he was when she found out.
"Master, madam, they are here." The old servant standing on the hill over there shouted as he ran.
Xia Dayu quickly followed behind. If this excited old man fell into something like this, he would not have a good life this year.
Tang Dao quickly jumped off his horse and instinctively tugged at his military uniform.
In fact, this is the first time he has met his mother-in-law in this life. According to common sense, mother-in-law is not as easy to fool as his father-in-law.
If possible, Tang Dao would rather face ten Japanese invaders, chopping up melons and vegetables with his fists and kicks.
