Jiang Qiang is indeed very angry now, as a modern person, he knows very well what it means to be "the biggest enemy is himself"! It has only been two or three years since the official establishment of the People's Liberation Army in Asia, and it stands to reason that this should be a young contingent full of vitality and vigor, a contingent that dares to fight, fight, and criticize itself. However, where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and human nature is always the most complicated, and it is inevitable that there will be many problems such as human feelings and sophistication, entanglement of interests, etc.

If these problems are not handled well, they will seriously affect the combat effectiveness and cohesion of the army, so Jiang Qiang will take advantage of the topic today to give full play to the alarm bell for everyone, and at the appropriate time, he will have to carry out another rectification campaign! "The lesson of the general seat is extreme! It's because our minds are too heavy! We let the head seat down! ”

Seeing that Jiang Qiang was really angry, Chen Zhengnian instantly understood that Jiang Qiang was going to engage in real self-reflection, rather than going through the motions. Chen Zhengnian stood up with a flushed face, saluted Jiang Qiang respectfully, and said: "General, although the main reason for such heavy casualties in the 4th Army this time is the short time to form the army, insufficient training, and the psychological quality of the recruits is not too strong, but the last battle really sounded a wake-up call for us. ”

After a pause, Chen Zhengnian continued: "First of all, our expansion rate is too fast, resulting in the quality of our soldiers not keeping up with the needs of the war situation, especially in ideological and political work, and we have not done enough. On this point, I think it is necessary to mention that the conditions of other people's troops are so difficult, and their food, clothing, housing, weapons, equipment, soldiers' salaries, etc., are much worse than ours.

But everyone else is not afraid of death when they start a war, and they have never heard of a rout before the battle! So sometimes I always wonder if our living conditions are too good, and will the officers and soldiers lose their fighting spirit because of this? I believe that both newly formed and old units must further strengthen ideological and political work, and the spiritual outlook of troops with faith and troops without faith are completely different!

Secondly, I would like to say that there is indeed a feeling of complacency in our army at present, especially among commanders at all levels, which is mainly manifested in excessive contempt for the enemy and insufficient anticipation of the degree of difficulty,...... "You three sit down first!" After Chen Zhengnian finished speaking, Jiang Qiang nodded and said: "Very good, today is not a celebration and commendation meeting, but a self-analysis and self-examination that can be seen deeply."

Everyone must have the courage to expose scars, have the courage to self-criticize, even if it will hurt their hearts and even if they will be drenched in blood, then they must face it squarely, and they must not evade it. Then Jiang Qiang said earnestly: "The victory in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression is only the first step of the Long March, and we have a long, long way to go. You must always remember to me that you must always keep your original intention, always remember your responsibilities and historical missions, and stand firm in the face of principles and major rights and wrongs!

No one is allowed to form a gang under any circumstances, engage in corruption through the back door, or violate laws and disciplines, otherwise don't blame me for being ruthless! "Boss, I also want to say a few words." "Boss, I'm going to review it with you!" "Soza, I was wrong!" Jiang Qiang's heart-to-heart words suddenly woke up the complacent crowd, and they all stood up with solemn expressions and took the initiative to speak.

Nearly two hours later, Jiang Qiang nodded with satisfaction and said: "What I want is this attitude and style of seeking truth from facts, not blind confidence and blind optimism, and there is no need for a peaceful illusion, because often contradictions and struggles can better promote unity and militancy.

I not only want to see the effect of everyone's follow-up rectification actions, but also go to various units from time to time to conduct spot checks and inspections! "Yes!" "Please rest assured!" "We will definitely take serious self-reflection and rectification!" "Never make a mistake like this again!" Chen Zhengnian and others solemnly accepted the order. Jiang Qiang continued: "I now announce the decision: Meng Wuan will be demoted to the position of deputy commander of the 4th Army of the Asian Liberation Army in Myanmar with leadership responsibility, temporarily acting as commander, and deduct half a year's salary. Deputy Commander Meng Wu'an, do you have any objections to this decision? ”

Meng Wuan hurriedly stood up and saluted Jiang Qiang and said, "I have no objection, thank you very much for giving me a chance to make meritorious contributions!" In the future, I will definitely lead the troops by example, and if similar problems arise again, I will be willing to be dealt with by military law! ”

"Excellent! Sit down! Jiang Qiang continued: "This time we have fought an unprecedented victory, dealing an extremely heavy blow to the Japanese invaders, and at the same time we have exposed our true strength, so the little devils will either give up attacking Burma for the time being, or they will soon form a stronger Burmese army."

Therefore, I have decided that the Burma Theater should further speed up the expansion and reorganize the general army of the Burma Liberation Army with 10 armies of 500,000 troops in the shortest possible time, so as to cope with an even more severe war situation in the future. To this end, I will transfer 20,000 backbone troops from Shandong to Burma as soon as possible, expand them to the newly formed armies and units, and form a combat strength ...... as quickly as possible."

Jiang Qiang has been thinking deeply about this issue for a long time, and since Burma has become the primary target of the Japanese attack, he simply shifted the strategic focus over. At the same time, as long as the resources of Myanmar's 16 million indigenous population are well absorbed, hundreds of thousands of elite troops can be formed from them for war, and a huge amount of wealth can be created to supplement the war losses.

Finally, Jiang Qiang's settlement in Myanmar has a deeper consideration, that is, to be prepared. Due to the butterfly effect, the situation on the battlefield in North Africa is very critical and is very likely to collapse completely. At that time, the Burmese industrial area will be able to feed back to the British and American allies to provide them with military supplies, and may even be forced to invest troops to participate in the military war against Germany, so as not to form a greater threat to China from the German-Japanese alliance with Burma!

A primeval jungle in the Benlong Mountains. The commander of the 19th Army, Shozo Kawabe, the chief of staff, Yoshiharu Ichikawa, and the commander of the 12th Division, Yukio Kasahara, and other devils were stepping on the muddy dirt road, one foot deep and one foot shallow. After receiving orders to open up a base area to fight guerrilla warfare in the base camp, Kawabe Shozo immediately ordered his troops to move to a Burmese indigenous gathering area.

For a variety of reasons, many Burmese natives are friendly to Japan at this stage, believing that they are here to help Burmese natives achieve liberation and independence. Therefore, if they can get the support of a large number of Burmese natives living in the jungle area of the Ben Nong Mountains, the devils can not only get food supplies to the greatest extent, but also have a foothold in the "mass base" with the help of the Burmese natives. However, not long after the 19th Army of the Devils changed its direction, the Benlong Mountains ushered in heavy rainstorms that hardly stopped for several days.

The road in the jungle was not easy to walk, and it rained heavily for several days, and the entire jungle area almost became a swamp, full of puddles that did not reach the thighs, and the slightly higher muddy ground also became muddy.

Originally, it only took a day and a half to reach the Burmese indigenous area, but due to the continuous heavy rain, more than 50,000 devil soldiers of the 19th Army really suffered a great crime. It's been two days since we walked, but there are still fifty or sixty kilometers to go. Along the way, I don't know how many devil soldiers were devoured by the swamp quagmire and various poisonous insects and snakes, and I don't know how many devil soldiers died under the guns of the tiger special forces chasing along the road.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Kawabe Shozo followed the team along the edge of the woods, and as soon as he struggled to pull his right foot out of the mud, a crisp gunfire came from a distance again. Yaga! I don't know how many imperial soldiers have broken this time! ”

Yichikawa Yongji, who was not far from Zhengsan by the river, scolded in great distress: "Damn the Huaxia Special Forces, they are simply a group of tireless murderous demons, who have been chasing us for three days and three nights in a row, and they still don't stop." "Dead, dead, dead! Despicable and sinister Chinese special forces, sooner or later, the Imperial Army will make you pay for your blood debts! "Yukio Kasawara is also extremely painful, in the past three days and three nights, more than 3,500 imperial soldiers have died in various angles of tricky sneak attacks.

This is also due to the fact that the 19th Army changed the direction of movement in time, got rid of most of the special forces ambush, and the bad rainstorm prevented the Huaxia Helicopter Brigade from coming to mobilize troops. Otherwise, if the original path is forcibly withdrawn and the breakout is carried out, the death toll of the 19th Army should definitely exceed 10,000. "Yaga!" As a dignified lieutenant general of the Imperial Japanese Army, he has never suffered such pain in his life, he has not been able to sleep well for a few days and nights, and the whole person has been soaked in water, and his whole body has long been soaked white and wrinkled, and even some parts of the body have ulcerated, and his body is so uncomfortable that he wants to die.

If it weren't for the instinctive desire to survive, and the thought of leading more than 50,000 devils to take revenge, and the fulfillment of the Japanese emperor's entrustment to him, Shozo Kawabe really wanted to give himself a good time! At this time, a devil communications staff officer couldn't help but come to report with joy: "Your Excellency Commander, our vanguard has successfully arrived at its destination, and a safe passage has been opened along the way!" We only need to hold on for another half a day, and we can reach our destination safely, and we no longer have to worry about the encirclement and interception of the Chinese army! ”

"Yo Xi! Well done! Tell every Imperial warrior the good news, and tell them that victory will always belong to the Imperial Army of Japan, and as long as you hold on for half a day, we will win! Hearing this, Hebe Shozo suddenly felt energetic again, and walked forward with his head held high and strode forward with his legs outstretched. Burst! Yaga, help! ”

As a result, when he stepped on this foot, he accidentally stepped into a deep pit, and the whole person fell into most of his body at once, which scared the old devil and screamed. …… In a jungle a few kilometers away, Chen Hang, the leader of the special forces squadron, was leading his own troops to chase and kill devil soldiers along the road.

Chen Hang held an AK47 assault rifle, half-crouched behind a towering ancient tree, and calmly observed the movement of the woods in front of him. There were also dozens of heavily armed special forces around Chen Hang, who were also calmly observing the enemy's situation, trying to find out where the Japanese devils were hiding. However, the silence in the woods ahead was terrifying, except for the sound of falling rain and dripping water, and the intermittent chirping of birds and insects, there was no other sound, let alone the sight of the devil.

At first glance, it looks like a primeval jungle in front of you, and no matter how you look at it, there will be no ghost soldiers in ambush. However, Chen Hang and the others clearly felt the aura of extreme threat, so they didn't suspect that there was a devil broken queen squad lurking in the jungle in front of them.

The harsh environment and natural weather are like a double-edged sword, which not only causes great difficulties and damage to the devils, but also causes great trouble to the Tiger Ben Special Forces. Not only is the mobility greatly reduced, but there will also be obvious traces of movement on the muddy ground, and there will be a clear sound when stepping on the muddy ground full of deep stagnant water, which is very easy to expose the target.

The extremely humid environment and the long time of soaking in the water are also a great test of physical strength and physical fitness. And because the devil troops suddenly changed the direction of marching, the front team changed to the rear team, and the rear team changed to the front team, resulting in the Tiger Ben special forces losing the first-mover advantage of setting up ambush and squatting points in advance.

The devil soldiers, who had been suffering losses before, turned their passivity into initiative and gradually found a way to counteract, not only planting a lot of mines along the road, but also leaving a lot of dead soldiers to ambush. These devils with a will to die are like poisonous snakes nailed to the jungle, exactly the kind that don't see rabbits and don't scatter eagles, unless they can kill with one hit, they will never come out and expose their targets.

As for whether they can leave alive, it is no longer a matter for these broken devil soldiers to consider, their only belief is to lurk, do their best to kill the Huaxia special forces pursuing the large army, and strive for a greater chance for the safe evacuation of their compatriots. As a result, the difficulty and danger of the Burmese army's special forces hunting devil soldiers have directly increased several times, and their own casualties have gradually increased.

In a few days, Chen Hang's squadron has 32 people killed, 16 seriously injured, and dozens more slightly wounded, plus non-combat attrition, only more than 50 people in the 120-strong squadron can continue to fight. The complex geographical environment of the primeval jungle is very easy to hide, and the trees and grass can perfectly cut off people's vision, and it is impossible to find the devils hiding in the jungle through the naked eye. If you don't have enough experience and alertness, you won't be able to detect the presence of an enemy, even if they're within a few meters.

And when you're fully in the enemy's range, you'll no longer be able to make effective evasive moves in a very short time. Hot metal bullets will shoot at all kinds of unimaginable tricky angles, easily killing people! Although the special forces of the Burmese army wore a full set of high-performance protective clothing, they were still unable to be invulnerable, and after being attacked in a critical area, they were seriously injured at the lightest and most serious, and they had to be killed on the spot if they carried a little back.

Just now, a special forces squad of the Burmese Army, less than 1 kilometer away from Chen Hang's squadron, encountered an ambush by devil soldiers in a jungle. Although after a bloody battle, this special forces squad annihilated an entire squad of devil soldiers, but it also paid the heavy price of 5 dead and 10 wounded. Holding his breath and observing the movement calmly for a while, Chen Hang still couldn't find any clues.

Because the forest in front of me is too dense, and the ground is overgrown with weeds, and there is no shortage of bushes more than one person high. It is indeed too difficult to find the hidden ghost soldiers through the naked eye, after all, the human eye is not an X-ray machine and cannot see through. However, that doesn't mean there is nothing left to do. Chen Hang stretched out his hand and made a ball of mud from the ground, and then gently threw it in front with his hand, making a move to startle the snake.

A moment later, the mud ball hit the ground with a muffled sound, and Chen Hang poked out half of his head to look ahead, and saw a bush not far in front of him shaking gently. There was no wind at the moment, and although there was a drizzle in the sky and rain dripping from the trees, the shaking of the bushes was by no means caused by the rain dripping. It was clear that the bush must be hiding at least one of the Devil Soldiers.

As for whether there are still devil ambushes in other directions, it is not something that can be tested by such a simple method. "Brothers, there is an enemy at seven o'clock!" "Cover me!" "Prepare for battle!" Chen Hang made a few sign words at several comrades-in-arms behind him, and then ran quickly with a gun and a big pine tree a few meters away.

Now we can only take one step at a time, and we can't give up the pursuit just because there is an ambush of the little devils, and watch the big army of devils grow away. A series of crisp footsteps suddenly sounded, breaking the silence of this jungle in an instant. "Bang!"

As soon as Chen Hang ran a few steps, a rifle bullet with a muzzle velocity of 765 m/s shot out of the bushes in front of him. Chen Hang was only 22 meters away from the trigger point of the bullet, which meant that the bullet could hit Chen Hang in less than 0.03 seconds. Under normal circumstances, Chen Hang would not have been able to dodge this bullet no matter what. However, Chen Hang would not really be stupid enough to run to the big tree in front of him in one go, but Chen Hang, who had been prepared for this for a long time, just ran two or three steps and suddenly fell to the ground.

Whoosh, almost at the same time, the bullet flew out against Chen Hang's back, and a moment later it was deeply embedded in a big tree. "Fuck me!" Taking advantage of the opportunity of the ghost soldiers to expose their whereabouts, Meng Feng, who was on the other side, immediately picked up his AK47 assault rifle and continuously pulled the trigger at the bushes. With a bang, a string of 7.62mm metal warheads whistled out, and a moment later slammed down on a piece of bush like a torrential rain. "Ahh I saw that the branches of the trees were broken one after another, and a miserable howl followed, and the devil soldiers hiding inside were beaten into a sieve on the spot. "Bang!" However, at this moment, a bullet shot out of nowhere and hit Meng Feng's chest fiercely.

"Ahh Meng Feng only felt as if his chest had been violently hammered by a heavy hammer, and the whole person involuntarily fell backwards again and again, and then a sharp pain came from his chest, and a mouthful of reverse blood gushed up his throat and spurted out. After stumbling back a few steps, Meng Feng subconsciously looked down, only to see a bullet bitten in his left chest, and a peanut was deeply embedded in the body armor. Crimson blood gushed down the bullet hole, quickly staining the area around his chest red.

Thanks to the bulletproof insert plate on the body armor, the bulletproof performance is excellent, otherwise this 7.7 mm warhead must have pierced the heart, and Meng Feng would have died a long time ago. The 6.5x50SR ballistics and accuracy of the 38 large cover are good, but the storage energy at long distances is very poor, and it is very short, and the warhead flight is too stable.

It is easy to shoot two eyes after the long-range muzzle velocity is reduced, so Japan has improved and developed a new generation of military standard rifles based on the 38-type 6.5mm rifle, and in 1939, the 7.7mm 99-type rifle was finalized and put into service to replace the 38-type cover and 6.5mm cartridge. Compared with the 38 large cover, the main advantage of the Type 99 rifle is that the 7.7 mm bullet is shorter, and it is easy to roll over after hitting the target, so the damage to the human body is much greater than that of the Type 38 rifle using 6.5 mm caliber ammunition, and the lethality rate is extremely high. The Type 99 rifle can also use the Type 100 and Type II grenade launchers to increase infantry firepower at close range, and under normal circumstances, a 40mm grenade can obtain 1,000 pieces of equipment for a division.

The 99-type also uses a round-hole type to replace the original V-shaped door of the 38-type, and the front sight adopts a triangular column type, which is easier to adapt to the aiming of recruits. At the same time, in order to improve mobility, the body of the Type 99 was shortened, and the total weight was reduced by 200 grams compared with the Type 38. It's just that the inventory of 38 big covers and 6.56.5mm ammunition is too large, and the production capacity of Japanese military enterprises is stretched, so 38 big covers are still the main rifles of the current Japanese Army, especially in the domestic battlefield in China. The Type 99 rifle is mainly used to equip the local troops and the southern battlefield, especially the current Burma battlefield.

Meng Feng was shot once, although thanks to the excellent bulletproof effect of the body armor, no shot was killed, but this shot still made Meng Feng extremely seriously injured, temporarily losing his combat effectiveness and mobility. And if the wound is not treated in time, Meng Feng may injure his life at any time. A sharp pain came, and blood continued to ooze from the wound, Meng Feng also knew that the situation was serious, and he could no longer exercise vigorously, so he could only endure the severe pain and slowly sit behind a big tree.

"Meng Feng, you stay still, and we'll take care of the rest!" Chen Hang glanced back at Meng Feng, who was pale, and hurriedly made a sign language at him, telling him to wait for rescue in place, and then slowly crawled forward in the muddy water. The shot that hit Meng Feng just now, Chen Hang didn't see the specific situation, but by listening to the sound and identifying the position, he could already lock on to the ghost soldier on a big tree in the direction of one o'clock. Whether it's avenging his comrades or clearing obstacles, this devil soldier must die!