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Chapter 978 I allow you to conduct live-fire training!
In the temporary command post of the Yuwangling Special Forces Regiment.

After Yang Yuanshan and Gao Yuanzhi finished discussing the establishment of the Second Artillery Battalion, they made serious arrangements:
"Yuanzhi, your first artillery battalion will march south tomorrow morning. Our target is Jinyang City!"

"What? Jinyang City?
Commander, are we the only artillery battalion going back?"

Gao Yuanzhi was horrified.

I feel like Yang Yuanshan is out of his mind, otherwise, why would he give such an outrageous order?

Fortunately, Yang Yuanshan answered his doubts in time and shook his head and replied:
“Of course you’re not going back on your own.

I will send three regiments from the Wutai Division to protect you.

Later, I will also send a telegram to Zhao Li, asking him to help me contact the New 358th and New 7th Regiments of the 8th Brigade and ask them to take action as well.

In this way, there are 5 regiments protecting your artillery battalion. As long as you are smart, there shouldn't be any big danger!
Moreover, the leader also said that he would send a message to the commander of the New Second Regiment, Kong, to have them also launch a feint attack on the south of Jinyang City to put pressure on the Japanese. "

Hearing this, Gao Yuanzhi immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

As long as they are not allowed to go alone with an empty artillery battalion to stroke the tiger's whiskers in Jinyang City, it will be fine.

He asked quickly and eagerly:

"Then Captain, what is our mission?"

“Bombard Jinyang City!

I demand that you open fire with all your might and beat the Japanese devils hard!

Give them the impression that we are going to attack the city with all our might, and force them to withdraw their troops from central Hebei to the west!
No matter how cowardly this old devil Okamura is, I will make him stick his head out!"

Yang Yuanshan answered in a strong and resounding voice.

"Yes! Promise to complete the mission!"

Gao Yuanzhi was instantly excited and immediately responded loudly.

This job is so fucking exciting!

"Yuanzhi, Jinyang City is the most important city in Jin, and there are many Japanese defenders there.

And they must have many large-caliber heavy artillery, possibly 105mm, 120mm, and 150mm howitzers!
Therefore, you must not rashly engage them in a bombardment. You must disperse your 48 guns and then fight a guerrilla war.

Fire a shot and change location!
One after another, endlessly!
Understand? "

Yang Yuanshan then arranged specific tactics.

"understand!"

Gao Yuanzhi's originally excited expression also cooled down a little.

Although this battle is exciting, it is also very dangerous!

"Also, if the Japanese invaders leave the city in large numbers, you must retreat eastward in a timely manner.

Xu Wei's battalion is still on Xigang Mountain and will cover you.

When necessary, you can abandon the artillery and save the artillery.

Your mission is only to create pressure on the Japanese, not to attack the city!!!
You must be especially careful about bombings by Japanese bombers. Once the observation post spots Japanese aircraft, you must immediately abandon your artillery and disperse and hide!
This time, there is no anti-aircraft artillery battalion to cover you."

Yang Yuanshan explained again.

"I see.

Don't worry, Commander, our First Artillery Battalion will ensure that we complete the mission!"

Gao Yuanzhi patted his chest and assured.

“By the way, don’t bring too many shells, so as not to waste animal power and slow down the march.

Each gun only needs to carry a basic number of shells!

I will arrange for someone to transport a batch of shells to you and place them at our temporary headquarters in Qubei County. You can then arrange for someone to carry them yourself."

The equipment and ammunition in Yang Yuanshan’s system warehouse can be deployed 50 miles away with just a thought, so of course he must make full use of this plug-in.

Anyway, now everyone in the special forces regiment has become accustomed to what he calls "arranging people to be transported here."

After hearing his arrangements, Gao Yuanzhi felt a lot more relaxed.

After all, the 75mm mountain artillery shells are not light, and there are too many of them, so the transportation pressure is indeed not small.

Especially now, they have 48 mountain cannons to tow!

He nodded and agreed immediately:

"Okay, I know."

……

After talking about the First Artillery Battalion, Yang Yuanshan looked at Wang Gensheng again and said:

"Gensheng, Yuanzhi has taken his men away, so we have to rely on your Second Artillery Battalion for Xinkou.

As long as the Japanese don't come, your main task is to intensify training and become proficient in operating those 12 heavy mortars as soon as possible. I allow you to conduct live-fire training!

Once the Japanese come, you may face bombardment from their 18 mountain cannons and field artillery.

You are well aware of their artillery skills, so don't let yourself be bombarded passively without any ability to fight back!"

"clear!
Rest assured, Commander, we in the Second Anti-aircraft Artillery Battalion will learn all about those guns in the next few days, even if we die of exhaustion!"

Wang Gensheng felt under tremendous pressure.

I was thinking to myself that I would ask Gao Yuanzhi to give me a few more reliable company and platoon leaders.

"Okay, you all go back to work.

Yuanzhi, remember to send someone to find Lao Zhou and ask him to send you a batch of dry food tonight so that you can take it with you on the road.

Tomorrow morning, as soon as we can see the road, we will set off immediately.

Try to launch an artillery attack on Jinyang City around four or five o'clock in the evening!

With so little time left until dark, the Japanese will definitely not dare to take the risk of sending people out of the city!"

"Yes!"

Gao Yuanzhi and Wang Gensheng agreed in unison and turned around to get busy.

……

Cao Shitou, 19 years old this year, is short and has a dark face.

He is a new soldier from the Third Regiment of the Wutai Division who has just joined the army for more than a month.

He felt that his experiences during this period were very magical.

Originally he was a farmer from Caojiazhuang, more than 30 miles east of Wutai County. Because there were many people in his family and they could not get enough food, he gritted his teeth and followed the gray military uniforms who came to the village to recruit soldiers.

However, after he joined the army, he realized that life in the army was not easy either.

Although the wild vegetable and black bean porridge was enough to fill my stomach, my clothes, shoes and hats were all tattered.

The worst thing was that the regiment did not have enough weapons for him, which made him very disappointed.

——What kind of soldier is he without a gun?

Every time he trained, he could only hold a wooden spear.

Looking at the old soldiers in his class sleeping with their guns in their arms, Cao Shitou was so envious that he almost drooled.

He ran to the squad leader and asked for a gun, even if it was an old case.

Unexpectedly, the squad leader who usually took good care of him in life ruthlessly rejected him:

"Shi Tou, if you want to touch a gun, you have to go to the battlefield and snatch it from the Japanese!
Our team never fires guns.

If a new soldier wants to get a gun, he or she must either capture it on the battlefield or wait until the veterans in the squad die and their guns are passed on to you. "

After hearing this, Cao Shitou thought about fighting the Japanese devils day and night.

When the time comes, he must get back a Type 38 rifle that only squad leaders have!

He even imagined in his mind the envious looks of the soldiers in his class after he got the Type 38 rifle.

……

Soon, the opportunity he had been waiting for came.

Regiment commander He Dingwei led them to the outskirts of Wutai County and began to attack the Japanese.

——Of course, this matter has nothing to do with Cao Shitou.

He didn't even have a gun, so he could only hide in the back and watch the soldiers operating the flying thunder cannon perform.

Hearing the earth-shaking artillery fire, Cao Shitou felt his blood boiling and his legs trembling.

He wished he could rush out immediately, use the bayonet in his hand, which he had begged the squad leader for a long time, to stab the Japanese to death and take away their guns.

However, before he heard the order to charge, the regiment commander got a large number of weapons and equipment from somewhere, including rifles, light machine guns, heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, and even mortars!

Now, he no longer has to envy the old soldier's gun.

Because the squad leader brought him several Type 38 rifles that were almost new, he gave him the Hanyang rifle from an old soldier.

It made him overjoyed.

After some inquiries, he found out that there were suddenly so many more weapons in the regiment, and they were all supported by the special forces regiment in the west.

This naturally shocked him, and he couldn't help but mutter in his heart: This special forces group is too rich, isn't it? They can actually give us so many weapons!
And soon, he saw something even more shocking.

The two artillery companies of the special forces regiment also arrived at their positions, then took up their positions and began bombarding Wutai County.

Looking at the fierce artillery fire, Cao Shitou, who was on the battlefield for the first time, couldn't close his mouth.

I couldn't help but ask the monitor next to me:
"Squad leader, didn't you say that our regiment is the main force?
Why did our regiment only have those two small cannons before?

Their special forces regiment has so many cannons and shells?
I see, this is the main force!"

His squad leader, Zheng Cheng, was also shocked.

Hearing this, he slapped him on the back of the head:

"What nonsense are you talking about, kid?

Of course our regiment is the main force!

Don’t you see that everyone in our regiment now has a gun and we even have several mortars?
As for this special forces group you mentioned, they are of course different from us, they are the 'number one group in the world'!"

"What? The best group in the world?
What a prestigious name! "

Cao Shitou was filled with envy and thought to himself: Why didn’t I come across the recruiting team of this special forces regiment?
Otherwise, would he have gotten the gun long ago?
Humph, nothing!

……

Amid the rumbling of artillery fire, Cao Shitou waited boredly for the order to charge.

This wait lasted for more than an hour, and the comrades around me began to complain:
“This special forces regiment has too many artillery shells, right?
If we continue bombing like this, will there be any more Japanese for us to kill?"

“This battle was too boring.

I also said that we can use this new Type 38 rifle to kill more Japanese devils!

It looks like it’s all in vain!”

……

Cao Shitou held the Hanyang rifle in his hand and thought silently: I must kill at least one Japanese soldier and exchange it for a Type 38 rifle!
After a long while, he finally heard the exciting charge.

Following the sound of the horn, he jumped up and rushed towards Wutai County with his comrades.

Then--

There's no after that.

There were not many Japanese soldiers still alive in the city. As a new recruit, he could not compare with his other comrades in terms of physical fitness, combat skills and charging order.

By the time he rushed into the city, the Japanese had all been killed by others.

He could only clean up the battlefield under the command of the squad leader.

I took this opportunity to pick up a Type 38 rifle that was about 60% new and put it on my back.

It feels much more beautiful than the previous one in Hanyang.

……

After the battlefield was cleaned up, Cao Shitou and his comrades were led by the cadres of the regiment and marched quickly to the south of Jinchang County.

I saw the soldiers of the long-famous special forces regiment, ate white flour buns, and drank wild vegetable and meat soup.

Although he had to sleep in the woods at night, Cao Shitou still felt very comfortable.

This was the first time he smelled meat since he joined the army more than a month ago!

It smells so good.

He didn't know that just when he had eaten and drunk his fill and fell asleep, the regiment's political commissar Lin Zhenghe had already found his squad leader and asked about his situation.

……

The next morning, squad leader Zheng Cheng ordered him:
"Shi Tou, hand over all the weapons and ammunition you have."

Cao Shitou was naturally confused when he heard this, and asked quickly:
"Squad leader, I picked up these guns and bullets on the battlefield. Why should I hand them over?"

"Hey, of course it's a good thing.

You are a veteran of our regiment!"

Zheng Cheng chuckled and answered with an envious smile on his face.

But he knew that the Special Forces Regiment was much stronger than their Third Regiment!

This silly boy in front of me is so lucky to be assigned to the special forces regiment by the regiment commander!

"What? Veteran?

"Squad leader, haven't I only been in the army for a month? How come I'm already a veteran?"

Cao Shitou's eyes widened, not believing the other party's nonsense about good things at all.

He remembered that the squad leader said he was a rookie yesterday!
"Hey, stop talking nonsense, kid!

Now the commander wants you to go support the special forces regiment.

You are the veteran of our regiment!

You have to say yes to anyone who asks you, understand?"

Zheng Cheng's powerful slap on his shoulder made Cao Shitou feel tremendous pressure.

However, when he heard about supporting the special forces regiment, his eyes lit up.

I immediately understood why there was so much envy in the monitor's eyes.

Who wouldn’t be envious of being able to serve in the world’s best military regiment?

……

Soon, Cao Shitou and other "veterans" in the class were taken to the foot of Yuwangling Mountain by the regiment commander, and saw the young commander of the special forces regiment, Yang Yuanshan, from afar.

Then the other side arranged for Deputy Captain Zhan to explain to them the discipline and requirements of the special forces regiment.

I then briefly asked about each of their situations, such as whether they could read, how strong they were, etc.

Then the 900 people were divided into two groups, one with 600 people and the other with 300 people.

The group that Cao Shitou was in was taken to the artillery battalion of the special forces regiment.

Saw those huge mountain cannons.

Only then did Cao Shitou understand why the Special Forces Regiment was "the best regiment in the world."

As for these mountain cannons, he had never seen them before, and he had never even heard of other regiments being equipped with them!
The pitch-black barrel looked like a giant beast with its mouth wide open, which was intimidating at first glance.

……

After arriving at the artillery battalion of the special forces regiment, Cao Shitou was assigned to the first squad of the first platoon of the third company and became an ammunition handler. The new squad leader was Lou Defu.

After learning that he was a soldier in the infantry, Lou Defu explained to him what an ammunition carrier did while asking Feng Yitian, a veteran in the class, to get equipment for him.

The reason Cao Shitou was assigned to serve as an artilleryman was naturally because he could write his own name, which could be considered as literacy.

Now after listening to Lou Defu's explanation, I can understand it.

——Isn’t the ammunition carrier responsible for carrying artillery and artillery shells?

He felt that this job was much easier than farming.

Doesn’t the shell weigh only a few pounds or ten pounds? What does it matter?

After a while, Feng Yitian brought a lot of things, and Lou Defu arranged:

"Shi Tou, these are the equipment issued to you. Change your military uniform and boots first!"

When Cao Shitou took a look, he saw a half-worn military uniform, a pair of clean Japanese military boots, a pistol, two bulging ammunition boxes and a gun belt.

He couldn't help but asked in surprise:

"Squad leader, am I not an ammunition carrier?
Why is there still this pistol?"

Lou Defu chuckled:
“Of course it’s for self-defense.

Our artillery battalion poses the greatest threat to the Japanese.

During the war, once they found that we were firing, they would send people to attack and try to destroy our artillery.

Therefore, all of you ammunition handlers must be equipped with these twenty-shot box guns.

At the critical moment, you have to step up and protect the gunners and artillery!

In addition to these box guns, we also have heavy machine guns!

That’s when the fight starts, it’s really exciting!”

Upon hearing this, Cao Shitou took a deep breath and screamed:

"What? Our artillery battalion also has heavy machine guns?

Isn’t this such a waste?
I heard that artillery is usually deployed in the rear, isn't it? "

Lou Defu smiled proudly:
“What a waste!
We have plenty of heavy machine guns in our special forces regiment, and we can’t use them all!
You should be happy that you can join our special forces corps!

You will realize later how comfortable our group's life is!"

His boastful look immediately made Cao Shitou's eyes light up, and he thought to himself: It seems that this time, I have finally made it!
……

(End of this chapter)