The troops have such a strong sense of seeking war, but Xiao Siming does not move, he is still training, training, and training!

There is no way, the composition of recruits in the army is too high, the training is insufficient, and as soon as you go to the battlefield, you can think about how high the casualty rate will be with your eyes closed! Don't look at the veterans and recruits screaming during training, after a fierce battle, I'm afraid these recruits will wilt like frosted eggplants!

This was an anti-Japanese battlefield of life and death, and the Japanese army was equipped with advanced equipment, and was accustomed to engaging in conspiracies, sneak attacks, and interspersed with roundabouts, and using all kinds of means, and it was very cunning. Our army cannot always be ambushed, and hard-hitting, unfancy battles can happen at any time. If the troops fail to train and encounter a tough battle, they will definitely suffer a big loss!

Xiao Siming, a special operations elite and training staff officer before the soul crossing, knew very well in his heart that with the current situation of the independent battalion, it could only be to strengthen training and demand combat effectiveness from training!

Only when training is in place can the fighters shed less blood in actual combat!

There is another reason, that is, in history, the Japanese army once again captured the county seat of Yuxian on January 8, 1938, that is, the day before the Laba Festival, and since then it has been in Yuxian, killing people and setting fires, and doing all kinds of evil until the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.

Xiao Siming wanted to wait for the Japanese army to take the initiative to attack, as long as the Japanese army left the defensive area and took the initiative to attack, then there would be fighters everywhere, and the independent battalion could seize the fighters to slaughter the devils, defend the Yuxian anti-Japanese base area, and exercise the actual combat ability of the troops!

As a result, on October 8, the Japanese army did not dispatch, and there was no war in Yuxian!

Xiao Siming knew in his heart that the Japanese army was not afraid of his independent battalion, it was likely that they were burying their heads in reorganizing the troops! Once the reorganization is completed, the Japanese army will definitely continue to attack Yuxian. In the next attack, the Japanese army is likely to dispatch a larger force, aircraft, tanks, and armored vehicles are all in battle, and the means of retaliation will be more ferocious!

In fact, although the Shanxi battlefield was relatively calm at this time, the Shandong side was fighting fiercely. The Japanese army marched along the Jinpu Road, crossed the Yellow River, and captured the provincial capital Jinan, and Han Fuqu, the chairman of Shandong Province, ran faster than a rabbit and threw most of Shandong to the Japanese army.

The Battle of Taierzhuang is about to kick off, but Xiao Siming has to train in Yuxian County. No one can know how anxious Xiao Siming is in his heart!

On the day of Laba, January 9, 1938, snowflakes fell in the sky.

The staff of the anti-Japanese democratic government of Yuxian County led the villagers to drive the donkey cart to the independent battalion station to offer condolences.

This is a good opportunity to display the results of the unit's reorganization and training and boost the people's morale to resist Japan. Therefore, Xiao Siming ordered all units of the independent battalion to line up at the door of the barracks and accept the review of the villagers!

The independent battalion, which had initially completed the whole training, was screaming from top to bottom. Especially those soldiers who have newly joined the army, they have received preliminary training, they can stand in line, they can shoot guns, fight bayonets, and they are in a hurry to go to the battlefield to fight the little devils, and their morale is very high. In this queue, everyone stood straight, raised their heads and chests, and had a lot of momentum, and the villagers who could see the condolences applauded!

In addition to a few slaughtered clean fat pigs, vermicelli, tofu, cabbage, radish, millet, cornmeal, and sweet potatoes, the most happy thing for the cadres and soldiers of the independent battalion was the gray cotton military uniform of the Eighth Route Army!

The benefits of recovering the county seat were reflected, and the anti-Japanese democratic government of Yuxian County, which moved back to the county seat, organized the villagers to rebuild the houses that were bombed by the Japanese planes, and at the same time, the work of supporting the front was also carried out well, organizing more than a dozen sewing machines to make cotton military uniforms for the troops, from military hats to cotton boots, including cotton shirts and shorts, one set per person, everything is available!

After the condolences were over, the soldiers of the independent battalion took off the winter clothes of the Japanese army and put on the brand-new cotton uniforms of the Eighth Route Army, and the whole spiritual outlook changed!

Xiao Siming struck while the iron was hot and organized the troops to increase the intensity of training and increase the number of training subjects.

In terms of training intensity, physical training requires weight-bearing cross-country running every day, the weight is increased from 5 kg, 10 kg to 20 kg, and the distance is increased from 5 km to 20 km.

In the shooting training, the whole battalion, including the cooking squads, barbers, and breeders of the baggage teams of each company, and even the female health guards of Mei Ying and Xu Ruping, the captain of the field ambulance team, had bricks hanging from their rifles.

Veterans and recruits who have good results in shooting training will be trained at night to make incense!

In Xiao Siming's words, 30% of the Japanese soldiers were sharpshooters, and the independent battalion could not lose to the Japanese army, and the proportion of sharpshooters exceeded that of the Japanese army!

There is no shortage of ammunition in the independent battalion, and during the shooting training, a live-fire target is held every two days, and each soldier is only allowed to shoot two bullets, and then the squad is a unit to summarize and comment, praise the good shot, and find out the reason for the poor hit, whether it is inaccurate aiming, or not holding his breath when pulling the trigger. From time to time, the cadres also threatened that they would not be able to hit the target next time, and they would directly rush to the baggage team to feed the horses!

Somehow, this word spread to the baggage team. Wang Xuejun, chief of the battalion's logistics section and captain of the baggage team, scolded the combat company for bullying people and looked down on the baggage team!

Wang Xuejun gathered the baggage team, but he shouted in his voice: "The baggage team is also a combat unit of an independent battalion, and Lao Tzu is not only good at logistics, but also can not be worse than a combat company when he picks up a gun and charges!" Remember the shooting mantra taught by the battalion commander: according to the grabbing and relying on the joint force, the rear support is in the shoulder socket; Aim carefully at three points and one line, and hold your breath at the moment of firing. Cheer up Lao Tzu, which one is not good at marksmanship, Lao Tzu will strip off your military uniform and get you out! Let you go home and have no face to see people, let alone marry a daughter-in-law, don't let people plug in the door, you are ashamed! ”

Feeling that there were few cadres and veterans in the baggage team, and that the training was difficult, Wang Xuejun discussed with instructor Yang Cheng and deputy captain Sun Wenyu, and invited Deng Wenli, the captain of the recruit team, Zhang Zhengren, the deputy captain of the team, and the six recruits training squad leaders under them to the baggage team to help train the technical combat ability of the baggage team.

Deng Wenli couldn't have said it more clearly, the little devil doesn't care if you are a machine gunner, a gunner, a cook, a horse feeder, or a haircut. You can't even shoot a gun, aren't you going to be a target for the little devil when you go to the battlefield? I didn't say it, if the gun is not accurate, the bomb is not accurate, and the bayonet can't fight the Japanese army, you can't be a soldier of the independent battalion, it's better to get out of the house as soon as possible, and save yourself the embarrassment of the independent battalion!

So, blessed are the soldiers of the baggage team, which is equivalent to entering the recruit training team twice!

The stabbing training of the independent battalion was no longer carried out against the grass man and wooden targets, and began to use wooden sticks for individual stabbing training!

When Xiao Siming spent three days training the cadres of the independent battalion, he talked about the stabbing technique used the stabbing technique of our army's infantry training in later generations, which was refined on the basis of summarizing the stabbing skills of the two armies in the world, the Red Army, the Japanese army, and even the Soviet Army, which were good at white-knuckle fighting.

No, on the training ground, take the squad as a unit, first recite "lunge sideways hold the gun, the tip of the knife is straight to the enemy's throat; The leopard's eyes are fierce, and the mantra of "knocking and blocking stabs and picking up the belly and intestines", followed by one-on-one catching and stabbing, shouting and killing for a while!

In terms of tactical training, in addition to training infantry in movement under enemy fire, the infantry squad has also strengthened the coordinated training of infantry squads and artillery units and heavy machine gun teams, which is equivalent to training the troops' ability to conduct joint operations and coordinate with each other.

In view of the fact that the Japanese army had many tanks, automobiles, and planes, and poison gas bombs, the independent battalion increased its training in fighting tanks, cars, flying planes, and anti-gas bombs.

It was the easiest to fight Japanese cars, and the light and heavy machine guns and rifles of the independent regiment could be used in battle, and grenades could also be used in battle.

It is more difficult to fight tanks, the independent battalion now does not have wooden-handled grenades, although the Japanese army's small melon grenades are easy to use and have great lethality, but they are not easy to bundle into cluster grenades for bombing tanks, light and heavy machine guns, rifles have no way to deal with tanks, and grenadiers are not good, and the only way is the two Type 92 infantry guns of the artillery platoon. Therefore, Xiao Siming personally went to the artillery team to discuss with the new artillery captain Zhao Xiuchuan, instructor Li Hubao, deputy captain Liu Li, and Zhao Fufu, and finally figured out the method by which the 92 infantry artillery could be flattened.

Two infantry guns alone will not do!

It just so happened that during the battle of Aozipo, two Japanese motorcycles took the lead in driving to the county seat through the ambush position of the independent battalion and were captured by the special service platoon guarding the county seat. Xiao Siming used gasoline on motorcycles as the basic raw material to teach soldiers to make ******, which can be regarded as an auxiliary weapon for fighting tanks.

Blowing up a tank with an explosives pack is costly, but it works well. It's a pity that the separate battalion now does not have explosives packs. The sappers sent people to the coal mine to search for it, but they did not find the explosives package, and all they saw were the tragic scenes of the miners manually digging underground.

If you want to find the explosive bag from the coal mine, you have to attack the Jingcheng coal mine, which has been occupied by the Japanese army!

It's the hardest to fly* the machine!

For the anti-Japanese army, which lacked anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns, Japanese aircraft have always been the most troublesome threat. Although our army used infantry weapons to shoot down planes during the Red Army period, the Japanese planes were much more numerous and more advanced than the planes of the national army.

Of course, the Japanese machine at this time is also relatively large. The reason is that the Japanese aircraft are very arrogant and fly low. In particular, in order to observe more carefully, the Japanese reconnaissance planes sometimes even flew over the rooftops and treetops. If the tactics are used properly, it is not difficult to adopt the tactics of gathering fire of our infantry to fight flying planes, and to shoot down Japanese planes with infantry weapons!

Under the guidance of Xiao Siming, the independent battalion practiced the "fire-gathering tactics" of infantry-to-air firing with infantry weapons in the company unit.

During the whole training, Xiao Siming led the team to engage in a long-distance pull, drove the troops to Jueshan Temple in Lingqiu County, mobilized the monks in the temple, and took out 500 guns and 100,000 rounds of ammunition hidden in the cave behind Jueshan Temple by the 61st Army of the Jin Sui Army.

Among these weapons, there are 10 Jin-made Czech-style light machine guns, 50 Jin-made submachine guns, and 440 Jin-made rifles.

With these weapons, Xiao Siming concentrated all the Japanese-style weapons of the Third Company and other combat detachments into the First Company and the Second Company, so that the First Company and the Second Company were all Japanese-styled, and the Third Company, the Engineer Corps, the Baggage Brigade and other units temporarily used Jin-made weapons. Among them, 50 Jinzao rifles were all issued to the chief and deputy squad leaders of a combat company, which basically reached the level of two submachine guns per infantry squad and increased the density of melee firepower.