"Uncle An's illness is, in my judgment, not an ordinary wind and cold infection, but I can't be sure what it is. This requires better medical facilities. ”

Shangguan Yusi left some medicine, and I asked Guifu to send Shangguan Yusi back to Jianlongwan, a regimental medical officer is not my family doctor, so I can't delay it too long.

I was granted three days off, and during those three days I did almost nothing, waiting for my father at the head of the bed. He's really haunting me now, as I expected, and when I'm away for a while, he'll wake up and have someone look for me.

His condition was up and down, he was always sleepy and sleepy, and his physical condition was deteriorating. He was so weak and frightening, and when I looked at him sometimes, he looked at me so weakly, and I felt that he had a lot to say to me, but he couldn't say a word when he was tired, and then he fell asleep again.

On the third day, my vacation is over, and I can only leave my father in Tan Qinrou's care, I am the head of the first battalion, and I have other things to do.

We are now a real soldier, and we have been conducting normal drills day and night, and even the original supplementary platoon has been upgraded to a supplementary battalion, and the strong men of the supplementary battalion have been required to start the live-fire exercise. They are no longer mere trenches, they must be able to replenish them immediately when they are damaged, and they will become real soldiers who are called upon to fight.

The busy scene on the east coast makes me feel that the day of our counteroffensive is really getting closer and closer.

Since the beginning of May, the good news of the Indian army in Burma has been reported frequently, which is exciting. They were on the way eastward, and the Japanese army in Burma was losing and retreating, and they were already completely on the defensive.

U.S. planes scouted that more than half of the heavy artillery used by the Japanese on the west bank to defend us was diverted to support the Japanese fighting in Burma, because they were facing increasing offensive pressure from the troops stationed in India.

Huang Wenlie worked tirelessly every day to see Longwan and Longtushui, and personally supervised the training of soldiers. With such a positive attitude of the chief, the people below naturally have to practice hard.

I am still the commander of the first battalion, and Zhou Dalei has been appointed as the commander of the independent battalion. The extra independent battalion is a super-establishment, and it is a newly expanded battalion that Huang Wenlie has followed Wang Tingyue's suggestion, and although this kind of behavior of arbitrarily increasing the number of units is expressly forbidden on the surface, in practice, such a thing is very common in our chaotic establishment.

The most common is the troops who eat empty salaries, and there are only two battalions of people, so they insist on making up the number of three battalions in order to get the military pay material from the peak. The extra military salaries were either monopolized or divided among the commanders, and the extra materials were sold for money and went into private pockets.

Then there is the method of expanding the surplus troops, expanding a battalion into a regiment, expanding a regiment into a division, and so on.

If you catch up with a few more military feats, in the end, the peak will generally push the boat down the river, report to the Ministry of National Defense of the military department, the battalion will become a regiment, the regiment will be upgraded to a division, the battalion commander will become a regiment commander, and the regiment commander will become a division commander. This kind of thing is not uncommon.

Of course, among them, the least common one is people like Huang Wenlie, who expanded his military resources in no way to get promoted and make a fortune, although Wang Tingyue's original intention of persuading him to do this may be to get promoted and make a fortune. But I believe that Huang Wenlie is not just for this, because in this process, I have not seen him embezzle a penny, and the number of people reported is accurate to single digits.

He was preparing for war, and he wanted his regiment to play a greater role than a regiment. Since Huang Wenlie is selfless, he does not have the heart and ability to deal with the people who distribute materials, and the supplies sent to the independent battalion will not be distributed according to the battalion-level structure.

In order to feed the independent battalion, the other three battalions of the new 200th regiment were needed, and material supplies were saved to replenish the independent battalion. So we seem to be back to the time of being full and hungry.

Huang Wenlie ignored this dilemma, he was now looking farther, and he was thinking about the role that his newly added independent battalion could play when he attacked.

Huang Wenlie finally regarded me as his cronies, and many times when he wanted to spit out something as soon as he wanted, he would come to the camp to discuss with me.

Now he was standing in the middle of the room of the battalion headquarters, his face was full of ambition, and he said: "The army stationed in India is advancing eastward, and Junzuo said that our offensive plan may have to be advanced. ”

Of course, I know that the Japanese troops stationed in India are now fighting in fear, but this does not mean that we can also do it, the Japanese army is not as weak and vulnerable as we have heard.

I said, "Tuanza, let's not compare ourselves with the Indian Army. The troops stationed in India are well-equipped, the Americans are guns, and the British provide supplies, which is not comparable to our troops who can't eat enough for two meals a day. ”

Huang Wenlie said: "Sometimes morale is more important than equipment, and our army is now in high spirits. Even if we take Hanyang now, we will definitely be able to wipe out the Japanese invaders on the west coast! ”

I said in my heart that taking Hanyang will definitely let the Japanese invaders wipe us out.

Huang Wenlie is now ambitious and proud, and he will personally lead his troops to the opposite bank with just one order, and start a desperate battle with the Japanese army.

I couldn't help but be a little worried about his blind optimism, and said, "Tuanza, the question is are we ready now?" Don't fight for the sake of war, everything will be a mess when the time comes, and if you really fight, it is taboo for soldiers to be unprepared. ”

Huang Wenlie smiled: "I knew you would definitely say this." The US military aid will arrive at the end of this month, and Junzuo said that this batch of military aid can equip nearly half of the people on our east coast! Coupled with our original armament, compared with the Type 38 rifles of the Japanese army on the other side, we are not only a step above them! ”

I said, "But marching and fighting is not only about being well-armed, but also about the right time and place. ”

Huang Wenlie nodded and said with appreciation: "Camp Commander An, I have always thought of your caution. But now we don't need to be too cautious, the map of the Japanese military coordinates that you brought back from the west bank will play a key role in this operation. ”

I asked tentatively, "Tuanza, according to what you say, are we really going to counterattack this time?" ”

Huang Wenlie said: "Of course. The meeting of the military headquarters has decided that by the end of the month at the latest, a river-crossing operation will be launched on the west bank! ”

I asked, "Which unit was targeted this time?" ”

Huang Wenlie shook his head with a smile and said, "This time it's not a certain army, it's an all-out attack by tens of thousands of people on the entire east coast!" The U.S. allies provided a sufficient amount of equipment to cross the river to ensure that it was not something that was put into the Nu River and then washed apart! Supplies will also be brought in from the outside! ”

I looked at Huang Wenlie's fanatical expression that I hadn't seen for a long time, and I knew that this time I was afraid that I would really have to carry out a counteroffensive operation.

I was desperate for a counter-offensive, more than any of them. Because over the years, we have lost too many and too badly, and my caution has been accumulated in these defeats.

I always thought that the only time to attack was when we were ready enough to think we were invulnerable, but my bosses didn't think so, they needed a big win to boost our decadent morale.