Chapter 768: The Colonel's Salute

The soldiers in the south pouted because they felt the cold.

Huo Xiaoshan smiled, because he felt the comfort of his whole body from the inside out.

Just because the temperature has cooled down in the past few days, the temperature has dropped from 12 degrees Celsius to minus 5 degrees Celsius, the sky is covered with large snowflakes, and the earth is also covered in silver.

The current time is the end of 1941, and the location is the New Wall River.

This is the third attack on Changsha launched by the 11th Army of the Japanese Army under the command of Anan Weiji, at this time the Japanese army has broken through the first line of defense in the north of the Xinqiang River, and is now preparing to attack the second line of defense set up by the squadron on the south bank of the Xinqiang River.

Due to the outbreak of the Pacific War, the Japanese army in the south was attacking the British troops stationed in Hong Kong, and Anan Weiji's task this time was to attack the direction of Changsha again, yes, it was the direction of Changsha, not Changsha, and they naturally did this to contain the squadron from reinforcing in the direction of Guangzhou and Hong Kong.

The Chinese side naturally understands the Japanese army's intentions, but how dare they take the attack of Anan's only hundreds of thousands of troops lightly.

Especially the last time, that is, the second Battle of Changsha caused huge losses to the elite 74th Army, and General Tiger Tsai learned from the pain and was determined to take back a city.

In response to Anan Wei's stone grinding tactics in a few episodes, General Tiger Boy designed a heavenly furnace tactic.

The so-called Heavenly Furnace method of warfare, General Tiger Tsai made it clear at the military meeting.

The Japanese army is like an iron lump, we can't smash it at once, that is, by blocking them layer by layer, roasting them with a small fire until they are roasted, and then annihilating them when they withdraw.

And in the last battle, the problem of the secret message being deciphered by the Japanese army has also been known.

The 74th Army collided with the three divisions of the Japanese army at once, and if the troops were able to form a non-chaotic system, it would be the 74th Army, and if it was an ordinary army, it would definitely be a rout.

Although no one at the meeting would mention that Hao Lingqi, the commander of the 58th Division, was unjustly killed, the lessons that should be learned must be learned.

Therefore, in this battle, all units used manual transmission of messages and telephone contact between the upper and lower levels, and maintained radio silence.

In order to prevent a situation in which he could not keep up with the battlefield situation due to backward communications, General Tiger Tsai even compiled a pamphlet of the Heavenly Furnace Tactics and distributed them to all units, so that the generals of all units could fully understand the essence of the Celestial Furnace Tactics and thus know how to fight without the command of the theater.

The reason why Huo Xiaoshan's directly subordinate battalion did not appear on the battlefield at the first time was also because Huo Xiaoshan had been helping with this matter at the theater command, and he did not lead his troops to the battlefield in a hurry until the battle was about to begin.

At this time, Huo Xiaoshan and his cold gunmen were in disguise, preparing to go out to shoot the devils on the other side.

That's the benefit of snow.

The Japanese army's uniforms are yellow, and they look very eye-catching in the snow, so when will you not give them a rifle at this time?

Huo Xiaoshan's direct battalion is the most willing to do this kind of work, and they will lose little if they run away after the fight, and they are not afraid that the Japanese army will find them.

Because the lining inside the cotton suit is exactly white, they only need to wear the cotton clothes and pants in reverse, then they will blend in with the snow, and it will be difficult to find it in the distance.

"There's enough to drink a pot in the snow this day!" Zheng Youjian's tone of voice was normal, obviously he had escaped from the state of demonic stupe, and was reaching out to help Li Liang hold the rifle with a scope at this time.

Li Liang was filled with grief and indignation after his division commander Hao Lingqi was shot by someone, and simply stayed after being retained by the battalion directly under him, while the 74th Army had been transferred to Guangzhou at this time.

"Are the cold gunners of the battalion afraid of the cold?" Zheng Youjian saw that no one paid attention, so he asked again.

"Report sir, it's not cold!" The little man who had already finished his dress replied with his chest straight.

The other dozen or so veterans all smiled when they saw the good answer.

"Okay! Let's go back to the New Fourth Army, and there is progress! A veteran quipped.

But no one still pays attention to Zheng Youjian, as for the reason, it's very simple, the old guy who doesn't want such a good girl is not welcome!

"The chief asked, why did he reply alone?" At this time, Huo Xiaoshan was silent, and there was a lot of blame for the veterans in his words.

The veterans were thinking about why did the leader stand up for the dead fat man today, so they heard Huo Xiaoshan shouting and asking: "I ask you again, the cold gunners of the battalion directly under you, are you afraid of the cold?" ”

"Don't be afraid!" Seeing Huo Xiaoshan asking, and his tone was obviously more serious than usual, the veterans hurriedly put down the work they were busy with and stood up in unison.

There was a veteran who was lifting his pants just now, and when he heard Huo Xiaoshan's shout, he didn't even mention his pants, and he also followed suit.

It's just that the pants got rid of the constraints of the hands and slipped directly onto the feet, revealing two snow-white men's legs, giving people a feeling of goosebumps in the cold wind.

But a veteran is a veteran, and everyone can only hold back a smile even if they see it, and the ugly veteran doesn't lift his pants and just stands like that.

"In the future, you must have the appearance of being a soldier, and you must have basic rules for dealing with the commander's questioning, okay, get busy." Huo Xiaoshan slowed down his tone.

"Yes!" The veteran replied that he was busy with his own business again, and the veteran was busy lifting his pants.

"Fatty, you should look like an official in the future." Huo Xiaoshan turned his head and said Zheng Youjian.

Although Zheng Youjian didn't really care about the soldiers treating him like that, who didn't have self-esteem, and he was grateful to Huo Xiaoshan in his heart at this time.

It turned out that he didn't have an official appearance when he was in the quartermaster department, and when he arrived at the directly subordinate battalion, the soldiers all listened to Huo Xiaoshan, so it seems that he has never enjoyed such treatment since he practiced martial arts!

At this time, when he saw Huo Xiaoshan earning face for himself, his mood was excited, so he saw that he also snapped and raised his right hand in salute and said, "Yes, sir!" ”

His salute made Huo Xiaoshan flurry, Huo Xiaoshan reacted quickly, and returned it with a standard salute of "pop", but he didn't say what he wanted to say, but he was happy all of a sudden with a "poof", and the salute couldn't be done, but he stretched out his hand and pointed at Zheng Youjian's military rank.

Zheng Youjian's military rank is two bars and three stars, and Huo Xiaoshan's military rank is two bars and one star, because Zheng Youjian is a colonel Huo Xiaoshan is only a major.

All the veterans laughed at the sound of "coaxing", who has ever seen a colonel salute a major or a lieutenant saying "yes, sir"?

The serious atmosphere that Huo Xiaoshan had just created for Zheng Youjian was destroyed by Zheng Youjian himself in a blink of an eye!

"Hey, hey, I can't be an official, let's be free with me in the future, just feel free, just be casual, hehe." Zheng Youjian smiled wryly.

Huo Xiaoshan was also made to cry and laugh by Zheng Youjian, if he doesn't want to be motivated and "willing to fall", then he has no choice!