There was no mobilization, just a marching order, and the whole regiment of the Fourth Army marched.
From the regimental commander Tang Dao down to the recruits and student soldiers who have not yet been awarded military ranks and are wearing new military uniforms, except for the wounded soldiers and female nurses in the medical team who did not meet the prescribed weight-bearing standards, the rest of them all carried less than 20 kilograms and more.
Bearing weight up to 40 pounds.
This is also related to the policy formulated by Tang Dao, which distributes ammunition, equipment, and even horse feed and food that cannot be transported by the baggage company to the infantry company.
That is to say, an infantry company is calculated based on 130 people. In addition to each person's own 15 kilograms of weight, and an additional 10 kilograms of weight per person, the entire company needs to distribute a total load of approximately 1,300 kilograms.
If someone is sick or weak and unable to bear such a heavy load, that doesn't matter. Your company will coordinate within your own company. Anyway, the total amount will be given to your infantry company. Even if you crawl, your infantry company will have to drag away the 1,300 kilograms of extra weight.
In order to get rid of the burdens assigned to them, the company commanders of each company also showed their special skills. Some adopted an equalization system and assigned tasks to each platoon and squad. They used the method of spiritual victory and overcame difficulties even if they were encountered. etc.
Awards will be awarded based on performance upon arrival at the destination;
And some adopt a reward mechanism, like Zhao Daqiang, who suddenly got the idea after a battle in the gold pit. First, a base number was set, and then no matter who in the company could carry an extra 2 pounds above this base number, he would be rewarded.
2 yuan, and those who carry more than 4 kilograms will be rewarded with 4 yuan. There must be brave men under the heavy reward. There are many people who carry more than 4 kilograms more, which just happens to help reduce a lot of burden on the body.
Regardless of whether it is spiritual rewards, material rewards, or other methods, Tang Dao does not care. He is the leader of the regiment. He only cares about the general direction and only grasps the most important core quality of the entire regiment's officers and soldiers - protecting the family and the country, and enforcing orders and prohibitions.
Grasping the big ones and releasing the small ones is one of the most important abilities that Tang Dao learned as he gradually became a senior officer.
Moreover, Tang Dao is well aware of the complexity of the future battlefield in North China. According to the situation, it is very unlikely that the Four Lines Regiment will participate in a large battlefield like the Battle of Songhu. Eighty percent of the battlefields are small-scale raids. His men
These infantry company commanders must all grow into commanders in the future. They must have their own independent judgment when they are unable to contact the regiment headquarters.
To put it bluntly, this long-distance transportation march is not only a test of the physical fitness and mental will of ordinary officers and soldiers, but also a training ground for 800 recruits. It is also an assessment of the management capabilities of each company commander.
Those who do not perform well will definitely be discounted by Tang Dao when the Four Lines Regiment expands its troops again in the future.
Of course, compared to the load distribution that each company managed to achieve by itself, the officers set an example one after another.
Regardless of whether they volunteered or not, the Sixings Regiment Headquarters also made a rigid rule that all units in the Fourings Regiment, from lieutenant officer to above, are required to carry 5 kilograms more weight than ordinary soldiers, and school officers carry 2 kilograms more weight than lieutenant officers.
The rule of the Si Xing Regiment is that since you become an officer, the more military pay you receive, the more responsibility you have to bear.
If you want to be a good officer, you must not only have a quick mind, but also have a good enough body. The new concept of Tang Dao was still somewhat uncomfortable for soldiers who came out of the old army before, but after following Tang Dao for a long time,
I have gradually gotten used to it.
Moreover, Tang Dao has never been a double standard who says one thing and does another. As the leader of the group, even if he is not ranked first in the group, he is still among the top two or three.
In addition to carrying the weight of his own equipment, Tang Dao also helped Tantai Mingyue carry an additional ten kilograms. The leader of Tang Da wanted to help his fiancée, which no one could say.
This fact makes the middle-aged handsome man who is walking with sore legs and feet quite satisfied. He is young, promising, and talented. Needless to say, just because he loves his wife, the little butterfly from the future is definitely the most popular father-in-law in this era.
Gratified.
Eating and dressing are very important, but after having all these things, whether or not you feel sorry for your wife is the first choice of parents in the world for their son-in-law.
The reason why Captain Tang, who carries a weight of up to 40 kilograms, is not number one is mainly due to the perverted existence of Ming Xin.
Xia Dayu got sick. He got sick on the second day after crossing Mangshang Mountain. I don’t know if he was too young. He was sweating heavily while carrying twenty or thirty kilograms of equipment. Then he took off his military uniform and was blown away by the cold mountain wind.
As soon as it blew, I contracted wind-chill that night.
The fever persists, and I am afraid of wind and cold. I can't even walk, let alone continue marching with a heavy load. This disease will be just a cold in the future, but in this era of lack of medical treatment and medicine, the mortality rate is not small. Special Operations Squadron
If you dare to be careless there, you can only send Xia Dayu to the medical team for treatment.
But Xia Dayu's burden was left to the special operations squadron.
The Special Operations Squadron currently has less than 60 people, but they also have a cavalry squad with 10 horses brought by Lu Sanjiang. Therefore, it is calculated based on two-thirds of the infantry company's capacity. There are horses to help share the load, but the Special Operations Squadron averages it out.
The weight of an individual soldier is also six kilograms higher than that of an ordinary infantry company.
Lao Hei, Gu Xishui, and Lu Sanjiang didn't go to Tang Dao to complain. They were old men who had been with Tang Dao for more than two months.
The sharpest knife? A few more kilograms of weight will make you unable to carry it?' It will be blocked by them.
Therefore, a lieutenant captain and two second lieutenant captains of the special operations squadron could only grit their teeth and grit their teeth. The two captains, one captain and two lieutenants, set an example and each carried a load of thirty-three kilograms. Reserve members like Xia Dayu
He also carried twenty-five kilograms on his back, while the average team member averaged nearly thirty kilograms.
It's just that Xia Dayu's illness was sent to the medical team, but the twenty-five kilograms of weight could not be sent, and had to be digested internally by the special operations team.
Mingxin directly took over the ten kilograms of weight. Including his own heavy sword, which was not included in the calculation, it was roughly estimated to be only fifty kilograms.
Really, when they saw Mingxin walking on the road with three food bags hanging on her body, three rifles and ten grenades, and a heavy sword on her back, the officers and soldiers of the Sixing Regiment were shocked at first.
Silently counting when this person will fall.
One day, two days, three days
Until a week later, the first man of the four-line group still walked in front of everyone at a constant speed, and the whole group was numb.
Not to mention anything else, this endurance alone is already twice that of an ordinary person.
For a week, the four-line regiment marched at least 60 miles per day according to the established marching speed. Some companies rested for too long and fell behind. That didn't matter. It took others 8 hours to reach the camp, but it took you 10 hours.
12 hours.
After arriving at the camp, the whole army did not eat and sleep immediately. Tang Dao's requirements were very strict. Each battalion and company had to dig field trenches and send out fixed sentries and mobile sentries.
It's not that Tang Dao was harsh and didn't realize the hard work of the officers and soldiers, but that even though they were already far away from the battlefield in Xuzhou, this road to the north didn't mean they would have nothing to worry about.
The Japanese army has begun to attack Henan Province, which is part of the First War Zone. The First War Zone is resisting the enemy with the Yellow River natural moat. Tang Dao cannot guarantee whether a small group of Japanese troops will have crossed the Yellow River and entered.
If the Japanese army were to launch a surprise attack on their own territory and cause losses, Shame and the newly formed Four Lines Regiment would suffer a blow to their morale, and the equipment they had worked so hard to transport would be damaged, which would be unacceptable to Tang Dao.
Since the two countries are at war, they must remain vigilant at all times. Tang Dao also hopes that his soldiers can maintain this vigilance as a habit.
Therefore, the officers and soldiers of the Fourth Army Regiment, who were already exhausted from marching long distances with high loads and maintaining a marching speed, had to build field positions after a short rest. By the time they finished eating, it was already around 11 o'clock in the night.
After 6 hours of sleep, the marching horn will be blown, and everyone will pack up their equipment, have breakfast, and embark on the march again.
Over and over again, in the exact words of Captain Li Jijin and Li Dal after arriving at the destination: "This is a nightmare march that he never wants to experience again in his life. Every day he faces the next sixty miles. The long road seems to have no end, and even
He is even more desperate than when he was at Sihang Warehouse when 400 soldiers were surrounded by a Japanese infantry regiment!"
Even a veteran who has experienced countless tragic battlefields will march in despair. For new recruits, it is a nightmare journey.
The new recruits are all in the baggage company, and they don't have to build field positions like combat troops, but they are not idle either.
After arriving at the campsite and only resting for half an hour, the veterans would blow the whistle and gather them together to conduct boring formation training with infantry platoons as units.
For two hours a day, there is no rain or shine, because there is neither wind nor rain. In the cold winter in Henan Province, there is nothing but cold.
If someone falls down, drag them aside, take a few sips of the ginger soup prepared by the cooking team, take a rest, and continue.
It's not that no one wants to be lazy, but the veterans are so vicious and vicious. They have even killed the devilish Japanese. Who would care about a bunch of new recruits who joined the army to survive?
Those who are lazy will be punished by standing in military posture for three hours, and those who are not honest will be punished for one night.
Dare you refuse to execute it? The military law team at the regiment headquarters is not a vegetarian. They will not use swords, guns and sticks on new recruits. The record is that once, the military pay was halved, and the second time, they were beaten with ten horse whips, and the third time, they were beaten.
Take off your military uniform and get out of the Four Lines Regiment directly.
It's the coldest month of winter in the wilderness, so there's no need to be hungry. Just being cold won't make it last one night.
It's that simple to choose between life and extreme exhaustion.
Fear of death does not mean that no one dares to violate military discipline. These new recruits were just a bunch of civilians a few days ago. For them to immediately become soldiers who obey orders and prohibitions is something that even gods can hardly do.
In the face of such high-intensity training subjects, there are many people who cheat and skate, some pretend to be sick, and some even deliberately injure themselves, falling into a pit with one foot, and their ankles are so sprained that they are unable to walk normally.
Faced with this kind of person, the platoon leader who was transferred from the guard company took a thunderous approach. It was okay to get sick or injured during the march, but he had to be reviewed. However, if a problem was found, the entire recruit class would enjoy the continuous sitting system.
The recruits were given 10 horse whips, and the beaten recruits did not receive any preferential treatment. After the military doctor applied medicine and slept on their stomachs for a night, they still had to carry a load of more than 20 kilograms and march. Those who did not obey were naturally kicked out of the army.
The wound on my back was already painful, and when a heavy object rubbed against it, the pain was even more excruciating, comparable to torture.
As for the culprits, Tang Dao didn't even mention beating them to death with a stick. They could find a way to escape, which shows that they can use their brains, but their intelligence is not used in the right place. The training of new recruits is not only to temper their bodies and wills, but also to let them find their way out.
towards your own direction.
The punishment for such a sharp-headed soldier is to withhold military pay for two months and receive double the whip. If no improvement is seen, this is of course the most stringent military law.
The principle of Tang Dao is very simple. In this era, what China lacks most is industry, but what it lacks most is people.
The recruits are like this when they are young. How can we expect them to go to the battlefield where blood and flesh are everywhere? It is better to eliminate them early.
At this time, he couldn't have any mercy. Even if he turned into a devil, he had to squeeze out the potential of these new recruits. If it was really impossible to squeeze them out, it would only mean that he was not suitable to be a soldier.
Tang Dao, who also came through the recruit period, knew that the potential of the human body is unlimited. As long as he does not want to die, a dog can become a qualified soldier.
Hammer is the best example. An ordinary Chinese pastoral dog has become stronger after experiencing the precarious days of war. It even killed the wolf green dog that the Japanese had spent decades cultivating with optimal genes.
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After punishing several thornheads in this way, and dozens of recruits in several infantry squads being punished for this, the military discipline of the recruits suddenly took on a new look.
Even if they are exhausted, no one will dare to cheat on the seemingly useless queue training anymore.
In this era, Tang Dao used the simplest and crudest method to quickly integrate a group of refugees who were not even close to the military camp into the army.
Of course, Tang Dao doesn't just use thunderous means to train rigorously. A slap in the face and a sweet date are also needed to win people's hearts.
At noon, the simplest and most convenient food is basically steamed buns and broth, but at night, the frontline combat troops are busy building field positions, the new recruits are training, and the cooking squads assigned to each company are also busy.
A large amount of meat purchased from Xuzhou was distributed by the Military Supplies Department. Every night, each person in the regiment had three taels of meat and one egg plus two bowls of rice and two steamed buns. The food was standard, let alone those who lived on one tael of white porridge every day.
The refugees, even the veterans of the Four Lines Regiment, have never enjoyed it.
This is also Tang Dao's opportunity to desperately replenish enough protein for these soldiers. Not only do they consume a lot of physical energy during the day, these soldiers from poor families are not bad at all, but they lack sufficient nutrition.
On the battlefield, a 'big man' who is 1.7 meters tall can't defeat a little devil who is only 1.5 meters tall. In the final analysis, he just lacks strength.
The heavy-loaded march during the day was like a millstone draining the energy of the entire regiment's officers and soldiers, and then replenishing it with rich nutrients, over and over again. Tang Dao believed that it wouldn't take long, regardless of whether it was new or old soldiers, not to mention the stabbing skills, just the swordsmanship.
With strength, it is not a problem for a little devil to fight alone.
The short legs of the Japanese people are due to a genetic defect. Until nearly a hundred years in the future, the Japanese people have been drinking milk since childhood to improve their physical fitness. The overall height of the Japanese people has not improved much.
Compared to the 500 recruits, it was the 300 student soldiers that impressed Tang Dao.
These talented students, like the new recruits, did not receive any preferential treatment. The 300-person student company was allocated 5,000 kilograms of various equipment and ammunition. They did not have personal equipment, but they all brought their own personal belongings. Some students even
I also carried more than ten kilograms of books.
That also means that the average individual weight of the student company is more than 20 kilograms. For this group of scholars, who also have many girls, the cliff is an impossible task.
When Zhuang Shisan distributed the load to each unit according to the military order, even Tang Dao secretly wondered if this was too harsh on the student soldiers. He even ordered Erya to run and ask Teacher Xiao He if they really couldn't carry it.
The security company can help them share some of the burden.
As a result, the student even refused. Not only did he refuse, but he also persisted.
At least in the first week, they maintained the same intensity as the regular army and new recruits and persevered smoothly.
Moreover, they also took the initiative to ask the veteran squad leader to conduct queue training for them, but in the end, Tang Dao considered that they would not become combat soldiers in the future and reduced the evening training to one hour.
