The negotiations lasted for half a year, and all parties used their wisdom and stamina to play the game.

This game did not change until the middle of 1937.

On July 7, 1937, the Japanese army challenged the end again and had an exchange of fire with the 29th Army stationed in Wanping City, and the commander of the 29th Army, Song Zheyuan, led his troops to carry out a fierce counterattack. The "Lugou Bridge Incident" that shocked the world broke out.

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The outbreak of the Lugou Bridge Incident was no less than a blow to the entire land of China. Everyone realized that a united front against foreign enemies was imminent.

However, these things were not enough to affect Yue Siliang and his 17th Regiment.

In the past half a year or so, Yue Siliang actually knew that there were many people below who did not trust his tactics, and even Di Hanming had opinions about his arbitrariness.

However, Yue Siliang did not make any concessions to the following rebound, and in the past six months or so, he has suppressed all doubts with his former prestige.

However, Yue Siliang is not a conceited person after all, although history has proved that the "three-three system tactics" are the most suitable infantry tactics for the Chinese battlefield in this era, but as a soldier, if you just rely on ideas, it is unrealistic to push things forward. During these six months, he also repeatedly deliberated and demonstrated how effective the new tactics could be on the battlefield.

For this reason, Yue Siliang and his subordinate cadres have conducted sand table war games many times, and finally after many times of polishing, it has been proved that the "three-three system tactics" are indeed superior to the "advance tactics" in the theoretical battle of tough battles. But despite this, Yue Siliang also understood that this was not enough to completely convince several battalion commanders. However, what made Yue Siliang feel relieved was the absolute support of Wang Shuangyin, the deputy head of the regiment.

Wang Shuangyin was a comrade-in-arms he had known since he first participated in the revolution, and when he was the squad leader, Wang Shuangyin was the deputy squad leader, and later in the early days of the Long March, when he was promoted to the regiment commander, he deliberately brought Wang Shuangyin to himself as the deputy regiment commander. It can be said that Yue Siliang's entire life trajectory after participating in the revolution Wang Shuangyin was seen in his eyes, and he always supported Yue Siliang's decision-making, because Yue Siliang in his eyes had never made a mistake in army building.

The news of the Lugou Bridge Incident gradually spread to the base area. After returning from the boss of Dehua, Yue Siliang knew that he needed to completely unify the voices in the group, because this time the big war was really coming.

A few days ago, Yue Siliang decided to conduct a confrontation exercise between the battalions within the regiment, and after half a year of training, some of the soldiers in the regiment had already completed the training of the "three-three system tactics." No matter what the following battalion commanders really think in their hearts, they still have to obey their orders after all, and they dare not discount it on top of training.

"Commander, the outside of the town is ready, do you think we are in the past now?"

While Yue Siliang was thinking about things, Lei Zi walked to Yue Siliang's side and asked for instructions.

"Oh, it's all ready, isn't it. It's all about success or failure! ”

Yue Siliang whispered, folded the documents in his hand and put them away and left the table. After carefully tightening the leggings and tidying up his clothes and hats, Yue Siliang took Lei Zi and the two of them out of the courtyard and came to the exercise ground vigorously.

The location here was deliberately chosen by Yue Siliang, it belongs to the river beach area, and there is a shallow river in front of it. The reason why Yue Siliang chose this place is self-evident, the content of this exercise is not simply a positional charge, but also a swimming crossing.

On the high slope outside the exercise ground, political commissar Di Hanming, deputy regiment commander Wang Shuangyin, first battalion commander Bai Lin, second battalion commander Huang Kebei, third battalion commander Li Jie, and all the regimental cadres were already waiting here.

"Commander."

Seeing Yue Siliang coming, Di Hanming took the lead in greeting. As far as his heart is concerned, he hoped that Yue Siliang would be able to prove that the "three-three system tactics" should be carried out first, and although he said that Yue Siliang's cadre-state arbitrariness had made him have some opinions in his heart, the prestige of the military commander still had to be encircled after all, but judging from the state of several regiment commanders, they did not seem to be very optimistic about today's exercise.

"The commissar arrived first, sorry for keeping you waiting."

Yue Siliang nodded, and at the same time his eyes swept over the several battalion commanders behind Di Hanming.

"No amount of subjective assumptions is inferior to objective facts, and it is not up to me alone to decide which is better or worse between the new tactics and the traditional advance tactics. In the past six months, several of you have more or less opinions about me in your hearts, but in my opinion, it is cost-effective to spend half a year to confirm such a thing. I won't say anything superfluous, and I'm ready to go. ”

Yue Siliang said indifferently, and at the same time walked past them directly to the observation point. The three battalion commanders looked at each other for a moment and said nothing. Wang Shuangyin, deputy head of the regiment, walked down the high slope at this time and announced the official start of the exercise.

The exercise site is east-west, bounded by a shallow river in the middle. The high slope is to the west of the training ground, and the lower part of the high slope is where the defensive position is located. The defending side defended in position, and the attacking side attacked on the other side of the river, that is, from east to west, including the swimming, and the distance of the attack was 500 meters.

The exercise stipulated that the attacking side should have two companies, that is, 200 men; The defending side sent a company of 100 men to defend the position. In terms of firepower, the attacking side has one 60mm mortar, five Madsen light machine guns, and the remaining rifles and grenades. The defending side had one Maxim heavy machine gun, two Madsen light machine guns, and the rest were all rifles of various types, as well as a number of grenades.

At the same time, the exercise was also divided into two sessions: the first was two companies of the first battalion and one company of the second battalion was the defender; In the second game, the attacking side was changed to the defending side, with two companies of the 2nd Battalion and one company of the 1st Battalion on the defending side.

Since it is an exercise, the weapon must not really fire, so the number of casualties and the firepower used in the process need to be judged step by step by the referee. In this way, it also indicates that there is still a gap between the rhythm of the exercise and the actual combat, but in the course of the exercise, we still try to ensure the integrity and maximize the authenticity. For example, the time taken for a mortar to verify a launch must be counted, and there must not be such a situation of unlimited firing; At the same time, for example, the Maxim heavy machine gun also has to consider the condition of the gun body, and we all know that the biggest feature of the Maxim heavy machine gun is the thick iron sleeve that is wrapped on the barrel, and in actual combat, this sleeve is a radiator that needs to be injected into it to cool the barrel...... These are all issues that must be taken into account during the exercise.

Of course, in order to ensure that the rhythm of the drill is not disrupted by repeated confirmations, a large number of referees have to run around during the exercise. If you think about it, they ran longer than the average soldier who participated in the exercise.

With Wang Shuangyin's order, the starting gun for the start of the exercise rang out, and the entire exercise ground began to operate. The referees and recorders scattered throughout the training ground began to act. Yue Siliang, who was on the high slope, set up a telescope and looked at the situation on the field attentively, and said to the three battalion commanders without looking back.

"Take a good look, I'm leaving you three here just to make you see it from an outsider's perspective. Regardless of who wins or loses today's outcome, it will have a great benefit, that is, it will give our fighters a better chance of surviving when they officially enter the battlefield. ”

The three of them didn't seem to understand Yue Siliang's words, but they all paid serious attention to the situation below.

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