Chapter 18: Meat to eat tonight

The new 41st Division and the new 42nd Division are C-level divisions, each division has only about 5,000 people, and the total number is more than 10,000. Under the supervision of the two division commanders Li and Zhu, more than 10,000 people passed through the Tieniu Pass in only 20 minutes. The Tieniu Pass was too dangerous, and after passing the pass, Li and Zhu found that the gunfire in front of them had not stopped, so they breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly asked their men to speed up.

After the Iron Bull Pass, it is the Dahe Mountain Road. The trail has been widened over many generations and has become quite wide enough to pass through three columns of centaurs at the same time. With the 41st Division in front and the 42nd Division behind, Li and Zhu stood on horseback on the side of the road and shouted at their subordinates: "Hurry, hurry!" Rescue the 61st Division, there is meat to eat tonight! ”

As soon as the division seat shouted, a junior officer immediately followed and shouted in tacit understanding: "Brothers, run hard, there is meat to eat tonight!" ”

Presumably, the soldiers of these two divisions rarely have meat to eat, and when they heard this, many people seemed to have been beaten with chicken blood, and the speed was raised suddenly.

Guo Da and He Zhengzhen have returned to the front-line position at this moment. The shouting on the mountain road was clearly audible, and both of them suddenly felt a sense of guilt.

The food treatment of the cadet army is good, and Ouyang Yun adopts the same set of the People's Liberation Army, and the establishment above the company has its own pigsty, vegetable garden, etc., and eating meat is not uncommon. This makes the officers and men who have not been in other units think that the whole Chinese army is like this, and they are unaware that they have already enjoyed the treatment of the front.

The Third Division had been to Nanjing and seen the beggar troops of the Sichuan Army, so they could understand why these soldiers under the mountain were so excited when they heard that there was meat to eat; The First Division had never experienced this trip, and when they heard this, many officers and men couldn't help grinning. There are many people who don't say it and think in their hearts: What kind of army is this, isn't there meat to eat in peacetime training? No wonder they look malnourished - hmph, just because they also want to fight our cadet army, look for death!

After all, it is to beat his own people, and he is mentally calculated or unintentional, which requires a reasonable reason. During the pre-war mobilization, the political director, brigade guides, and regimental directors did not fail to create public opinion, describing the newly formed 41st Division, the 42nd Division, and the newly formed 36th and 38th Divisions as bandit units that could not fight the Japanese and fought their own people ferociously.

Ouyang Yun's order to Guo and He was to beat them thoroughly, don't think about the consequences, and someone would naturally be responsible for wiping their buttocks.

Guo and He really wanted to pursue this purpose, but after seeing the appearance of these two divisions and the means of boosting morale, the two of them couldn't help but feel compassion. And it is this compassion that keeps them from doing things absolutely.

Li and Zhu didn't know what to do, and it was because of their sentence "There is meat to eat tonight" that at least 2,000 people died in the 42nd Division.

Half of the 42nd Division had not yet entered the ambush circle, so Guo Da gave the order to attack.

Three red signal flares rose into the sky, and the next moment, deafening gunfire and shouts of killing sounded on Dahe Mountain.

The sound of the signal flare rising into the air was very special, Li and Zhu looked up when they heard the sound, and then their faces changed instantly. Li Ming reacted quickly and shouted: "It's not good, there is an ambush!" Then he hurriedly shouted, "Stop, lie down!" Counterattack! ”

The gunshots rang out suddenly, and one of Li Ming's guards found that it was too dangerous for the division to ride high on the horse, and was about to help him down, but he heard him snort and fell headlong. The guard was taken aback, hurriedly hugged him, and shouted: "The division seat is injured!" Master, you, you're fine, are you? ”

It's good that he didn't shout this voice, but when he shouted out this voice, the officers and soldiers of the newly formed 41st Division, which was already disorderly, became even more panicked.

“TMD!” Li Ming opened his mouth to scold, and then groaned, his face turned pale. The guards rushed to check his wound and found that he had only been shot in the left shoulder, and he couldn't help but call him lucky. He was rejoicing in his heart, with a loud "boom", shrapnel and stones flew wildly, and in the chaos, he didn't know how many injuries he was injured in the road, so he hurriedly hugged Li Ming and hid under a boulder on the side of the road.

Li Ming also felt quite lucky. If the bullet is one centimeter higher, it will hit the neck. He let the guards treat his wounds, and turned his head to look around - in the "tick-tock" charge, he saw the soldiers in colorful uniforms rushing down all over the mountains shouting, and the guns in their hands often flashed for a few seconds, and from this feature, he immediately understood which unit was ambushing him. "Ouyang Yun, this madman! How dare he ambush us! He spat hard, spat out a mouthful of bloody foam, and then that heart hurts! The troops who thought they could go up to the table after spending some effort were not the enemy of the people, the other side was just a charge, and most of the subordinates were killed or wounded, and the rest of the people could not even organize an effective blockade, and the defeat was like a mountain in an instant, and a large number of soldiers raised their hands and became turtles in the urn.

The process and shortness of the battle made Guo Da and He Zhengchuan also surprised. Originally, they thought that even if they had mental calculations or not, and their equipment was more than one level higher than that of their opponents, this battle would last at least an hour or so. After all, the other party has 10,000 people, even if 10,000 pigs are tied up for you to kill, it will take a long time, right? What about the facts? But in a mere quarter of an hour, the battle was over.

Maybe it was because the opponent's team was relatively long, which facilitated the ambush of our army, but the battle between these two divisions was really too bad - Guo Da watched Zhu Xiuyun flee in a panic with more than 2,000 people under the escort of a guard, with a thoughtful expression on his face!

Twenty minutes later, the statistics of the results came up: in this battle, more than 3,000 enemies were annihilated, more than 4,000 were captured alive, and one lieutenant general, two major generals, and brigade commanders, and several officers of other ranks were captured. The proceeds of the seizure - this is the responsibility of the first division, and what makes He Zhengchuan regret is that there are nearly 200 Czech ZB-26 light machine guns. He didn't know how to say that the reason why Guo Da had to take over the hard work of cleaning up the battlefield was this ZB-26 light machine gun.

Li Ming was escorted to Guo and He by two soldiers, he didn't have the consciousness that a defeated general should have, and when he saw these two officers who were also wearing the rank of lieutenant general, he immediately roared: "You are really too arrogant to learn soldiers, what does Ouyang Yun want to do?" Does he want to provoke a civil war? This is a blatant provocation to the National Central Government, and I will go to the Military Council to accuse him-"

Guo Da has a good temper, and he really feels guilty in his heart, so he doesn't want to meet him in general. He Zhengchuan was not easy to get along with, he pouted and glanced at Li Ming coldly, interrupted him and said, "It's the two of you who want to cause a civil war, right?" I want to ask, what do you want to do when you attack our northern Fujian without authorization? Is it that the troops have no meat to eat, and they want to fight on the territory of our cadet army? TMD, do you think we all eat dry food? You dare to slander our commander, TMD, if you want to go to the military council to accuse our commander, I will sue you! As a local garrison, at this time of national crisis, it is just a matter of not thinking about resisting Japan and killing the enemy, and even arson to the friendly army for banditry - TMD, it is not too much to kill the head against birdmen like you! Lao Tzu only hit you on the shoulder, which is already considered extraordinarily gracious - TMD, you dare to be crooked, I really don't want to live?! ”

Li Ming's face was originally pale because of blood loss, and at this time, his scalp was numb by his left sentence TMD, and he heard that the shot on the shoulder turned out to be his masterpiece, and the other party also brazenly claimed that his subordinates were merciful, and under the humiliation, a face instantly turned into a pig's liver color, "You! You-" Li Ming shouted angrily, and suddenly opened his mouth with a "poof" and spit out a mouthful of blood, and the whole person fell backwards, and he actually fainted.

Among the officers and men captured by the newly formed 41st and 42nd Divisions, there were not a few who had such an arrogant reaction as Li Ming. However, when they found that there were cadets on the side of the road who kept raising mines, they realized that the people of Lu Dao actually had a face, otherwise, if there were too many mines driving them towards the minefield, the consequences - thinking about it, the arrogance was immediately frustrated, and they began to become honest.

In the 61st Division, as early as half an hour ago, Sun Shuangwu and others were completely suppressed. However, the sound of gunfire and fighting from there never stopped. If Li Ming had the opportunity to come to the scene to take a look, it was estimated that he would be so angry that he would vomit blood three liters -- the so-called gunfire they heard was indeed firing at each other at the beginning, but later, it turned into the tank men of the 61st Division shooting wildly into the open field of the field, which was regarded as a military training.

"It's a pity that the newly formed 36th Division and the 38th Division have not come, otherwise they can be organized into a machine gun regiment," Guo Da said regretfully as he swept over the nearly 200 Czech ZB-26 light machine guns that were neatly placed.

The disease-free general-purpose machine gun, to put it bluntly, is a copycat version of the German MG42 general-purpose machine gun. Of course, because the student army is far ahead of other countries in some professional techniques, such as welding, stamping and other links, this copycat version is superior in performance than the genuine version.

The MG42 and ZB-26 both have a 7.92mm diameter, but the former has to change the barrel every 150 rounds fired, while the latter has 200-250 rounds. In this comparison alone, the ZB-26 has an advantage over the MG42. When Ouyang Yun decided to copycat the MG series of general-purpose machine guns, he took into account the large number of domestic ZB-26s, so he took into account the versatility of the ammunition of these two machine guns. With this premise and guarantee, and for an unknown reason, Guo Da came up with the idea of using this ambush to capture a lot of Czech ZB-26 light machine guns and organize them into a special light machine gun unit. Two hundred machine guns were enough for him to form a machine gun battalion, and he was not greedy enough, and he was still not enough.

As a lieutenant general-level captive, Li Ming's self-esteem is naturally much stronger than that of those small soldiers - Guo Da is worried that he will not be able to stand He Zhengchuan's verbal abuse, and will go insane or make extreme moves, so he specially protects him by his side. He had good intentions, but he expected Li Ming to wake up at this time, and he heard this sentence - this was a blow to him, but it was more painful than He Zhengchuan's words just now - the new 41st Division, as a product born under a special environment, its treatment is not as good as any division of the Cadet Army, all weapons and equipment, except for a large number of Hanyang and a small number of Zhongzheng are allocated from above, and other heavy weapons such as light machine guns, heavy machine guns, mortars, etc., are almost all obtained by Li Ming out of his own pocket. Some of them were even obtained by him from Xue Yue and others with a dead face. Because it was not easy to come by, he was extremely precious. On closer examination, about thirty of them ZB-26 were just obtained from Xue Yue, which was the commission for this operation. These ZB-26s have just been unboxed, and many of the oil stains on them have not been wiped clean. Li Ming originally had high hopes for them, and felt that with these thirty more ZB-26s, he would increase his combat power by at least one-tenth, but who would have expected that the first time he took it out, some even became people's in the blink of an eye without a single bullet. However, this man is not greedy enough to say such cruel words. At that moment, he even vomited blood, straightened up, and fainted again.