Chapter Thirty-Nine: High on the Mountain, Melancholy on the Mountain
Xiaobao understood what Platoon Commander Li meant, and wanted Li Cheng to teach them marksmanship, Xiaobao thought that since he wanted to arrange someone to teach them how to use guns, it would be better to teach them with guns and artillery anyway, they were all party troops, and turned back to Platoon Commander Li and said, "Platoon Commander Li, if you don't mind, let Li Cheng help you train them in marksmanship, right?" You might have been one family 500 years ago? You don't have to be polite to him, the water baby will teach you how to use mortars. Let's see who will church first between the two of them, and try to compare with each other. ”
Platoon Commander Li agreed, but he couldn't ask for it. I wanted to open my mouth to ask just now, but I had no choice but to help the Eighth Route Army too much, and it was difficult to speak, and these recruits would not be able to shoot before arranging to evacuate the battlefield. Among the nine people in the group he led, the Luo Ban spear was slightly better, but unfortunately he was seriously injured and could not teach the soldiers, and it could not be compared with Li Cheng's marksmanship, as the saying goes, a famous teacher produces a high apprentice, if you can get seven or eight tenths of Li Cheng's, the marksmanship of the soldiers is almost 100 shots, a sharpshooter, how can a disciple brought out by a sharpshooter be bad?
They thought that Li Cheng and Shui Wa were the best among the dozen or so people in the security team, so they were assigned to teach them. How do you know? It is more than enough for the cheetah team members to be their teacher by themselves, and the unattainable task in their eyes is actually just ordinary in the cheetah squad.
Deputy Regiment Commander He was very happy to see that the soldiers had regained their confidence. On behalf of the Eighth Route Army, he expressed his gratitude to the security team, and at the same time asked the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army to study their skills seriously.
Deputy Regiment Commander He accepted Xiaobao's suggestion and formed these 50 or so soldiers into a company, with two platoons temporarily lacking in strength. Platoon Commander Li was naturally the acting company commander, the first squad leader Luo Shilin, the acting platoon commander of any platoon, Xiao Shanzi was happy to be a small squad leader because of his meritorious sister and more care from Xiaoyi and Xiaobao. Zhong Ergou, who had participated in the Red Army for two years in the class, served as the second platoon leader, and Yang Qingsong was the first squad leader of the second platoon. Wang Xue is also a company instructor. Of course, all positions had to wait for the meeting of the party organization of the three battalions to formally appoint and dismiss.
The platoon was now full of lightly wounded and could not conduct physical training, and an artillery platoon was formed to learn the theoretical knowledge of machine guns and mortars. The second platoon is an infantry platoon, each equipped with a crooked machine gun, and at the same time, the two platoons of Shui Wa and Li Chengjiao are fighting together.
These days, the mountain is busy, and the Red Soldiers have reconnoitred and reported that there have been no incidents of devils killing ordinary people in the villages near the mountain. This gives everyone peace of mind for a while to devote themselves to training.
Under the hunt of Hadron and a few people, many wild beasts fall into traps every day. Of course, the four war dogs will also pick up some hares, pheasants and so on. The fighters were happy to eat and train energetically. Unlike the Eighth Route Army, when it first entered Shanxi, it was sleepy and lacked to eat enough every day, let alone eat well, and was exhausted from training when there was no combat mission. It's just that the emphasis on training is too high now, and they get up and stand in a military posture before dawn, and they can't stop rolling, fighting, and crawling for a few hours in the morning to practice, and there is no way to make them all recruits?
The two moved the boss to train the Eighth Route Army in the same way as he was. The Eighth Route Army has seen the power of the security team, and they all want to practice well and learn more skills, so that they can go to the battlefield to kill the enemy and avenge their dead comrades. So they are all studying hard and hard.
The wounded were basically healed under the care of Xiaoyi, and during the period of recuperation, they learned the theoretical knowledge of the pursuit gun, the use of methods and skills every day, and also learned that the machine gun can run and fight, saving bullets and firing, which was not heard of before.
A week later, the second platoon began to practice shooting with live ammunition, when learning, the water baby also taught them to shoot from the basic three-point line (gap - crosshair - target), the progress of the second platoon is very fast, several soldiers can hit the target of dozens of meters, especially the learning of the stabbing practice method is different from that of the Eighth Route Army, the effect is several times higher, and the three-person team is more seamless, they can't imagine that these methods are the result of changing many times from decades of tactics and experience, How could it be that the Eighth Route Army was on a par at that time.
Deputy Head He and several people came out to watch them practice almost every day with sticks, and they were very satisfied and stunned! That's a lot of progress, isn't it? Day by day, the way of training is ruthless, accurate, and steady, and the soldiers gritted their teeth and stood up, and it began to be a little cold in the autumn, and the fighters were also sweating like rain, dripping down one by one. Practicing marksmanship also doesn't cherish bullets at all, which makes him, who has always been poor, feel distressed! Seeing the result, I thought it was too worthwhile, and I always had a guilty guilt in my heart, it was my misjudgment of the devil that led to the failure of the operation, and there were heavy casualties, but fortunately, this group of soldiers survived, and at the moment of danger, they met the rescue of the mysterious security team, and got their help. He believed that the combat effectiveness of these recruits had far surpassed that of those old soldiers, but he didn't know what was going on with the troops and the first battalion, which was really a little worrying, and the devil's troops often passed under the mountain and wandered around a few days ago.
When the week-long sweep of the devils was completed, the scattered and retreating troops of the Eighth Route Army gathered at Lijiatuo in the mountainous area at the junction of Pingding County and Jiuguan as scheduled. Brigade Commander Chen was wearing glasses, thin and looking quite energetic, and was listening to the two regiment commanders report on the losses in the regiment in the temporary conference room.
Commander Xu of the 771st Regiment reported that their regiment suffered heavy losses, a battalion commander and company commander were killed in the whole regiment, and more than 200 soldiers were wounded.
Commander Ye of the 772nd Regiment reported that because they found it in time in the mountainous area, the troops were transferred ahead of schedule, but unfortunately the three battalions suffered relatively large casualties in the fierce battle with the devils, and the whole battalion sacrificed more than 40 fighters, with a total of more than 100 dead and wounded.
Brigade Commander Chen was sad for a while, and said to the two regiment commanders: "This time the devils suddenly swept the Eighth Route Army, because they just came here, the intelligence department has not yet been established, and there is no defense at all, fortunately, relying on the mountainous area, it is easy to retreat. Even so, the various units suffered considerable losses, lost their troops, and sacrificed many outstanding commanders and battlefields. In this engagement, we have experienced the military quality of the devil's troops, and the strength of the firepower and the devil's personal combat effectiveness are much stronger than those of the national army. The ammunition seems to never run out, and the machine gun mortars are all infinite fire, and the range is long. The weapons of the Eight Roads could not hit the devils at all, and many soldiers were injured when they had to wait until close range to fire. According to the instructions of the central authorities, the devils tried not to start a frontal war as much as possible, but adopted guerrilla warfare, fighting only when they won the war, and leaving if they could not fight. ”
The two regiment commanders listened and nodded again and again. Regiment Commander Xu of the 7th Regiment said: "Brigade commander, the troops are very unstable now, and they were chased and beaten by devils for the first time, and they all shouted that they wanted to fight with devils to avenge their dead comrades. ”
Commander Ye of the 772nd Regiment also echoed and said: "Yes, the soldiers of the third battalion can't wait, looking at the battlefield soil that was brought back and sacrificed, they are also clamoring for revenge, and they can't let the blood of their comrades flow freely." ”
Brigade Commander Chen said: "The casualties of the troops are so large, the mood of the battlefield is understandable, we are all very sad, but especially at this time, our commanders can not mess up the party, those sacrificed soldiers, but also for us to survive, in the future to eliminate more devils, now the devil's morale is booming, there are many generals, we must avoid its edge, looking for favorable fighters to eliminate the devils, we are new to the place, life is not familiar, it is difficult to expand the soldiers, we must preserve the strength, not want to fight with the devils, but can't fight!" When you go back, you must do more ideological work among the soldiers, and you must not act recklessly or act rashly. ”
The two regiment commanders replied in unison: "Yes, brigade commander, we will implement it as soon as we go back, pay close attention to training, and find a favorable opportunity to eliminate the devils." ”
"Okay, let's go back," Brigadier Chen said to the two regiment commanders dryly.
Commander Ye of the 772nd Regiment said: "Brigade Commander, today I came to take our Deputy Regiment Commander He back, the regiment is now a mess, waiting for him to go back to deal with it?" ”
"Lao He, didn't he go back early? Who are you still coming to me to pick up" Brigade Commander Chen had just said that he realized that something was wrong, "Isn't Lao He in your group?" Nervously asked.
No, he went to the third battalion to meet Wang Xue by the way after the meeting, but he ran into a war with the devil and was seriously injured in the battle, the commander of the third battalion arranged for Wang Xue and platoon commander Li of the reconnaissance platoon to lead a class, and more than 20 recruits escorted the wounded to the brigade hospital for treatment? Head Ye replied anxiously.
When Brigade Commander Chen heard this, he immediately stood up, what? Lao He was injured and came to the brigade hospital for treatment, and the hospital was transferred with the brigade headquarters, and there was no deputy regiment commander He and the wounded of the third battalion at all?
At this moment, everyone knows that something is wrong, so many wounded, a squad of soldiers and more than twenty recruits, there are not a few guns, there are not a few bullets, what should I do if I encounter a devil? Hey, I'm very anxious when I think of this, it's been so many days, and there is no news from them, I'm afraid it's more than lucky.
Two days ago, when the various units were looking for the lost soldiers, they saw many corpses of the Nationalist Army, the Eighth Route Army, and even guerrillas and bandits with shotguns on the roads and in the woods.
Brigade Commander Chen sighed and said: "No matter what happens, send people to the mountainous areas of Pingding County, the villages to inquire more, to see if they can get some news, according to their ideas, if Deputy Regiment Commander He and they are fine, they must have taken refuge in a mountain village far away from the county seat, so that it is convenient to take care of the wounded, and the devil is not easy to find." "I know that there is very little hope for this.
Ay...... Deputy Head He is an old comrade who has experienced the Long March! The hundreds of thousands of troops of National D surrounded and intercepted, and they came over unharmed dozens of times, but they didn't expect to be injured and forced to evacuate when they first fought with the devil on the front line of the anti-Z war, and now their life and death are unknown. The devil's combat effectiveness should not be underestimated!