The charcoal fire warmed the wine and smelled fragrant, An Yi and more than a dozen battalion commanders and brothers let go of their stomachs and drank like this, and they drank from 11 o'clock in the morning to 5 o'clock in the afternoon, half of the brothers who couldn't drink enough had already been drunk to bed, and the remaining seven or eight were all strong and full of blood.

Ye Cheng, the commander of the second battalion, who was drunk and undisciplined, suddenly remembered something, put down his wine glass and staggered again to the large map that had been hung up earlier due to the controversy, and raised his baton to draw a circle around Quzhou: "Just now Ji Nan only talked about the terrain and landform of Shangrao all the way to the east, now I will add, uh......"

The brothers laughed, Ye Cheng, who had burped at all, didn't care, changed his usual style of strict self-discipline and neat appearance, and opened the neckline wider to cool his hot chest:

"After going out of Shangrao and passing the Jade Mountain, it is equivalent to walking into the lofty mountains and mountains that stretch for thousands of miles, the Quzhou City guarded by the enemy's heavy troops, the radius of two hundred miles is the area of undulating mountains and hills, there is not enough manpower and animal power to drag artillery and other heavy firepower, the north is the Qianligang Mountain Range that stretches for hundreds of miles, the west is the Huaiyu Mountain Range that connects Jiangxi, the south barrier Xianxialing Mountain Range extends from Jinhua to the southeast of Shangrao, the highest Dalonggang is on the edge of Jiangshan County jointly attacked by the Fourth Regiment and the Fifth Regiment, and now the heavy snow covers the mountain and the road is muddy, the march is extremely difficult, let alone the fortification?

If you want to encircle Quzhou, you must take Jiangshan and Changshan, the complex terrain of these two important gateway towns in southwest Zhejiang, I will not be verbose, I just want to ask, in addition to blindly rushing, what other good way is there? Why don't you let someone who is familiar with the terrain and knows the defenders of the two places lead the troops into battle? Did a few of the main regiments really think that they could settle the defenders they were facing? Is it more important to have a few feats of war than the lives of hundreds or thousands of brothers? Why are the generals so cruel......"

Hu Zi and Yang Bin saw Ye Cheng crumbling, and hurriedly stepped forward to help, Ye Cheng laughed, and then fell on Hu Zi's shoulders and fell drunk, Yang Bin called Ye Cheng's adjutant and the two guards outside the door to carry Ye Cheng back to his barracks to serve well, sat down and said worriedly to An Yi, who was flushed: "Xiao Yi, aren't you worried that those senior brothers of yours will hit the wall?" ”

"Is it useful to worry? You also attended the divisional headquarters combat meeting last night, and didn't you see the disdain and disdain on the faces of the bosses when I introduced the enemy situation and the forecast of the weather worries? Even the division seat and the chief of staff felt that there was no suspense in this battle, but they were in a high position and were cautious and did not say it explicitly, at such a time, what is the use of you and I worrying? Come, I'll toast you again! An Yi picked up the wine glass and touched it lightly with the worried Yang Bin.

The beard also drank it all with Gu Laoer, brightened the bottom of the cup, wiped the wine stains on his beard with his beard, shook his head and sighed:

"It is estimated that the hearts of the brothers of each regiment are all burned by resentment, our commander-in-chief's guard regiment commander Jin Fozhuang Jin, last month in casual clothes to Nanjing business trip was captured by Sun Chuanfang's masters, the frenzied Sun Chuanfang regardless of the current situation that his dozens of generals are still in our hands, actually violated the practice of the two armies not to fight each other, and in the case of repeated telegrams and consultations by the principal, he mercilessly chopped off our old Jin's head, which made the principal sad and grief. In the last rage, he also killed Tang Fushan, Zhang Fengqi, and Jiang Zhenchen, the generals of Sun Chuanfang's army, who had been captured, and then informed General Deng Yanda to pick out two of the three commanders of Sun Jun in the prisoner camp, Wang Liangtian, Li Yanqing, and Yang Genghe, to be shot publicly, which suppressed the anger of the officers and men of the whole army.

Speaking from the heart, Lao Jin is the most admired of all the instructors in Huangpu, he is strict with his own ability, and the soldiers he brought out are well-known, who in the whole Huangpu does not respect him and admire him? What a pity! Lao Tzu and Lao Jin have been instructors since the establishment of the Whampoa School, they don't see each other much but respect each other, every time he leads the students to take riding lessons and talk with Lao Tzu very happily, he is the only one among the hundreds of instructors in Whampoa who can see Lao Tzu's bottom fine master, but in the end Lao Tzu didn't even have the opportunity to see him for the last time, and the hatred in his heart is difficult to eliminate! ”

Yang Bin hadn't learned the news before, and he was surprised to hear what Hu Ziyi said, Yang Bin put down his wine glass and said very seriously:

"Meng Zhaoyue, commander-in-chief of the Zhejiang army, is also a decisive person, and he is more yin and sleek than Sun Chuanfang, if our army has officers at or above the regimental level captured in this battle, there is no choice but to move his head, so I am more worried about our main regiments, if it is really like a series of tricks and cunning made by Xiao Yi standing in Meng Zhaoyue's position just now, my three main regiments may not have a good time, maybe Meng Zhaoyue will do better and calculate more shrewdly."

All the brothers nodded in unison, and they all looked at An Yi who was holding a wine glass, but An Yi did not take over the conversation, but turned to Xia Jian, who was half-lying with a smile:

"Xia Jian, your first battalion of brothers all came out of the mountains, if Lao Tzu ordered your battalion to give up all baggage, go into battle lightly with the main force of the whole battalion, and go all out to reinforce a certain main force regiment in front, how long would it take you to complete the seventy-kilometer mountain road?"

"This kind of weather...... Within 14 hours! ”

Xia Jian sat upright and unbuttoned his shirt, opened his sturdy bronze chest and said loudly: "According to the map provided by the guard company and the special detachment, and then estimate the current heavy snowy weather, fourteen hours is completely enough, after more than a month of strong training, all the brothers under Lao Tzu's command have become screaming elite soldiers, much stronger than Chen Zhibiao's third battalion!" ”

Chen Zhibiao, who was sitting opposite, was chatting with Yin Jinan in a low voice, and when he heard Xia Jian's words, he was unwilling, grabbed the wine jar and shouted a big bowl, and in a blink of an eye, he filled the two large sea bowls brought by the orderly, put down the wine jar, picked up one of the bowls and handed it to Xia Jian:

"Xia Jian, don't talk nonsense with your mother's eyes open, which of Lao Tzu's three battalions is not more than a big cut of yours? I'm happy today, I'm too lazy to compete with you, if you have the ability, you will touch this bowl with me! ”

The brothers applauded loudly, Xia Jian is not a weak person, took a bowl full of at least one catty and two taels of spirits, stood up and smiled at Chen Zhibiao proudly.

Chen Zhibiao, who had never revealed the depth of the drink, stood up easily, held the bowl and touched Xia Jian with great confidence, brought the bowl to his mouth without hesitation, and drank a large bowl of wine in a blink of an eye as if drinking water.

Xia Jian, who had already drunk almost the same amount, saw that his head was big, and he could only pour a bowl of wine with difficulty in the shouting of the brothers, put down the bowl and immediately rushed out of the room and ran into the snow and vomited wildly.

Who knew that the victor Chen Zhibiao had just sat down and stood up again, burped, suddenly covered his mouth and ran wildly, rushed to a few meters behind Xia Jian and immediately squirted out a mouthful of wine arrows, and then squatted on the snow in pain and vomited violently, like a tiger's roar echoing Xia Jian's voice, which was spectacular.

The adjutant guards of the two hurriedly grabbed their cotton clothes and rushed to their bosses, beating their backs and supporting them, and they were so busy that An Yi and the others, who came to the door to admire it, laughed crookedly, and almost collapsed to the ground.

The surviving brothers returned to the table and sat down again, Yang Bin remembered that An Yi had talked about the "mountain troops" before, and in connection with the question and answer between An Yi and Xia Jian just now, he thought about it and asked An Yi:

"Xiao Yi, just now you asked Xia Jian's battalion about the ability to run, is there a connection with the mountain combat you mentioned earlier?"

"Exactly, what do you want to hear?"

An Yi saw that Gu Laoer, Hu Zi, Yin Jinan, and Yang Fei were all looking at him, and immediately asked everyone's opinion if it was okay to drink here?

Seeing that the brothers were all nodding, An Yi called the orderlies to remove the hot pot banquet and serve fragrant tea.

The brothers drank hot tea and rested for a while, and when the orderly soldiers finished cleaning up and sat back around the table, An Yi unreservedly displayed his blueprint of the "Mountain Brigade" that he had repeatedly thought about and confirmed in front of the brothers, and explained the meaning of the existence, combat methods and purposes of this special unit one by one, An Yi's voice turned back to his reading group:

“…… From this, you can all see that Xia Jian's battalion already has the basic ability of mountain warfare, and what is lacking is the corresponding weapons and equipment and further training for the surname, but unfortunately there is a great lack of high-powered automatic weapons, although each warlord has its own pistol team, Yan Xishan and Feng Jun's Zhang Dabeard even have their own flower machine gun companies and regiments, and even Feng Yuxiang has a pistol brigade with a big blade full of grenades on his back, but these troops of theirs include the pistol companies of each division of our First Army, None of them are really rapid reaction and rapid attack troops, let alone mountain troops, at best they are just a group of death squads.

As long as Xia Jian's battalion can be equipped with a large number of machine guns, supplemented by six small mortars of 60mm caliber per company, German grenades, one light machine gun per squad and one sharpshooter, think about it, whenever there is a short-handed encounter or a sudden encounter, or when there is a sudden attack on the enemy, who can compete with such a mountain force that can run and rush and be extremely fast? ”

Yin Jinan said in surprise that if the opponent was so difficult to deal with, there would definitely be an error in the estimation of his marching speed, firepower equipment, and striking ability. Yang Fei said that if he really encountered such a force, he would only be beaten passively; Hu Zi and Gu Lao Er looked at each other and nodded, knowing that An Yi would soon put this idea into practice.

The thoughtful Yang Bin had to admire An Yi's conception, but felt that it was difficult to ensure the needs of such a team in terms of weapons and equipment:

"Xiao Yi, it costs a lot of money to equip such a mountain army, the bigger problem is that it is difficult to ensure the purchase of automatic weapons and the replenishment of bullets, I only say that my regiment is equipped with 300 flower machine guns, the bullets used in this kind of flower machine guns imported from Germany are 9×19 imported pistol cartridges, and the domestic Gongxian Arsenal, Taiyuan Arsenal, Sichuan Arsenal and Feng Yuxiang's Northwest Arsenal imitated the same appearance but very different, all domestic factories have changed the German flower machine guns to small and light, Reducing the caliber is easy to use the 7.63 barge gun bullet produced by most domestic arsenals, and the effective distance of shooting is only about 100 meters, which is more than 50 meters less than our original flower machine gun, but it is convenient for the replenishment of ammunition, but the domestic imitation flower machine gun often has problems in use, and it is impossible to obtain the firepower effect you require, which is very problematic!

The 40 Czech light machine guns that you managed to get back this time are very good, but the number is too small, and you have to use imported pointed bullets, and you can only equip the companies directly under the regimental headquarters, and the model battalion machine gun company in Jinan has only been allocated six, unless you can equip a large number of them and solve the problem of ammunition supply well, it is difficult to obtain satisfactory results. ”

The brothers were also aware of this problem and agreed with Yang Bin's opinion.

An Yi also smiled bitterly: "These difficulties are difficult for us to solve, which is why I sent Shen Jianping, Tao Xun, Zhang Shuguang and other twelve people to Germany for further study, hoping that when they return from their studies, they can produce high-quality guns and ammunition in large quantities on the basis of the advanced machinery and equipment and raw materials I provide."

Do you still remember the German-made firearms repair machines that we left in the old Nanchang Zhou Dashan Villa before we left, and the six-member team of the ordnance repair station that quietly stayed in the old Nanchang? Another thing I forgot to tell you is that Mr. Ou Yaoting will send two more imported small manual machine tools to our six brothers in the near future, and I have left a total of seven domestic and imported guns for them to study, and I believe that in less than half a year, they will be able to imitate better machine guns, and there will never be any more faults that go off and jam at every turn.

Some time ago, I heard that a few ship repair workers in the suburbs of Jiujiang could make a flower machine gun, so I didn't believe that Yang Yuanchong and the six officers and men with many years of machining technology were not as good as a few repairmen. ”

Yang Bin smiled and nodded: "I believe it!" The reason why this kind of flower machine gun can be imitated in large quantities in China is that this gun is indeed simple and practical, the whole gun only has five parts: bolt components, body components, magazine components, butt components and barrel components, if you don't count the screws, there are only 37 parts, and you can definitely do better with a convenient machine, not to mention that Nanchang and Jiujiang have high-quality steel, and the purchase is very convenient. However, far water can't quench the thirst of the near, and before there are enough automatic weapons and equipment, it is difficult for Xia Jian's battalion to make a breakthrough. ”

An Yi smiled and asked: "What do you think if we first take out a company of the third battalion and combine it with the machine gun platoon of the guard company of Hutou and conduct some preliminary experiments first?" ”

Yang Bin suddenly realized: "Understood! Totally doable! A machine gun platoon in the head of the tiger is 64 people, equipped with four legal mortars, and has two of the latest Czech light machine guns, and only needs to recover 30 German-made flower machine guns from the non-combat part of the regimental headquarters to basically meet their firepower requirements. ”

"I agree! However, I will lead this force! Gu Lao Er made a statement.

The brothers laughed, but after Xia Jian, who vomited everything in his stomach, woke up, he didn't know when he was already squatting by the stove by the door of the house to smoke and roast the fire, and heard the brothers' words clearly. Seeing that Gu Lao Er was going to compete for this fat shortage, where could he still stay, he immediately strode back to the table and argued with Gu Lao Er, and his mouth was full of fermented wine, which smoked all the brothers away.

(To be continued)