Chapter 58: Army Reorganization

(... On the battlefield, it's life and death. Veterans who have fought for several years have gone to war with too many evil moves. Those inconspicuous tricks made many Japanese devils die in a daze. Unfortunately, they are all experiences explored by individual troops. Without the promotion of the entire army, the Japanese would have died at least several times more... Excerpted from "Grandpa's Memories of the War of Resistance")

The Shao family wins! The Shao family wins!... The grand anti-Japanese war parade was launched because of this victory. The excited students reported the same war and read it repeatedly in various public places, as if they had won countless victories. The Shao family, an ordinary small village in Jiangnan, was also well-known throughout the country for a while, and even marked this small place on the newly released maps of some bookstores... Cao Xiaomin, temporary editing and modeling

The names of Fan Ying and others have been deeply engraved into the hearts of the people, especially Cao Xiaomin, from the Nine Hell Kings in Luodian to the Four Isolated Army to the current Shao Family Victory; Cao Xiaomin, who has been constantly becoming the focus of the battle and hero, has become synonymous with the heroes on the front line of the Anti-Japanese War! With the samurai sword of the Japanese colonel's septile, the burnt metal barrel of military flags, and the various weapons seized were arranged to be exhibited nationwide. The name of Battalion Commander Cao Xiaomin will be louder, surpassing any general!

The battle of the Shao family had a profound impact on the entire War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in this time and space: in the war situation, the Chinese Democratic Party army won the first complete victory of the Japanese gang in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, which made the Japanese who originally planned to go straight in the war without daring to advance after learning that a refined gang was killed by the Kuomintang army for a lifetime, and pushed back the time of entry, which allowed many troops that were broken and annihilated in the original time and space to be preserved systematically.

Cao Xiaomin's report was also valued by the General Staff because he added the names of Yu Jishi and Wang Yaowu. The Kuomintang army began to be wary of the detour attacks of the Japanese sub-detours. In the retreat plan that began immediately, they arranged for warning troops to be set up in various areas that might be infiltrated and detour attacks. The withdrawal troops were repeatedly emphasized to be wary of being sneak attacked by small Japanese troops on the road...

"The Japanese are nothing great, they have more planes and cannons... If they don't have those, they still have two eyes and one nose? Let's see how the model battalion beat them..." Because of the encouragement of the Shao family's victory, all the Kuomintang troops, which had originally retreated in panic, stabilized; some of the defeated soldiers were still unwilling to do so in private and eager to imagine fighting with the Japanese!

The political influence of the victory made the national government even more happy. The Kuomintang army, which bravely resisted the war of resistance, continued to rise in the minds of the people, and reached an unprecedented position. At the meeting held by the signatories of the Nine-Country Convention, the Chinese representatives actually had an attitude of not being afraid of you to beat me!

But no one knew that the Japanese had never advanced straight in, except for the objective factor that a corps was completely wiped out, but actually because the Japanese General Staff had been ordering the troops: "Sweep away the enemies near Shanghai, and the pursuit of the front is Suzhou, east of Jiaxing!"

Although the Shao family war has restrained the Japanese troops a lot and has been much slower than the original time and space advancement, this has made the Japanese military's attitude more unifying: "In order to resolve the incident as soon as possible, the military department is required to approve the march to and occupy Nanjing!"

Under the tiger hill, an army was sweating profusely training. Of course, this is Cao Xiaomin's model battalion of the 74th Army!

The chaos in the outside world and the political complexity had no effect on Cao Xiaomin at all; he knew that the War of Resistance must continue anyway, and no matter what negotiations he had, it was useless! Since the funeral ended, he became very taciturn, and he was training while most of the troops were preparing to withdraw! In addition to the training of soldiers, he himself began to borrow a lot of books from Zhang Lingfu to learn military textbooks.

"Don't worry about being tired. It's better to be exhausted than to be killed by shells!" Cao Xiaomin harshly asked every soldier to dig the new trenches he invented: "In Luodian, half of our dead brothers died under the mortars. This kind of trenches can effectively resist mortars. This is the experience that brothers exchanged for their lives!"

Cao Xiaomin's new trench was actually a serrated trench that was very common in two-stage later. A serrated turning position gave soldiers the choice of which side to hide when the mortar was hit; and the cat ear pierced on the wall of the trench on the bottom floor could also effectively avoid the attack of large-caliber artillery.

In order to be able to dig such trenches as quickly as possible during wartime, Cao Xiaomin also applied to the military headquarters to order a batch of small shovels, which was incomparable to German engineer shovels, but at least it would allow soldiers to cut off without relying on steel helmets! The equipment of the Kuomintang army was too poor, and there were not many tools when building field fortifications! Unlike the soldiers with high morale, Cao Xiaomin was full of worry: a battalion dug a day to dig out a demonstration trenches of thirty meters. It was really a war. How long would it take to dig a trench that stretched out by kilometers? It seemed that before the engineers shoveled down, the Kuomintang army soldiers still had to rely on a small number of tools and helmets to repair fortifications most of the time, and could only hide themselves in the shallow ditch squatting to expose half of the body and be bombed... It was not that they could not think of a good method, but that they could not be implemented!

"When Qi Jiguang and Qi Shaobao fought against the Japanese, he used bamboo. If a bamboo was pushed forward, no matter how heroic you were, you would not be able to get through..." An old soldier came up with a move: when a soldier retreated from one trench to two trenches, he could drag a few bamboos in the traffic trench and retreated and put it in the middle to become a roadblock. Don't underestimate these bamboos. It is really not easy for the Japanese to come over! The open bamboo is like a barb. The Japanese cannot remove the bamboo on the other end, but the Kuomintang army retreated to the back can easily lift or drag the bamboo at the root. With such a roadblock that is difficult to cross but cannot block the view and rifle strike, it is unlikely that the Japanese would not die under the guns of the Kuomintang army in the straight traffic trench. This is indeed a good idea, but the prerequisites still have fortifications like demonstration trenches!

"If the Japanese occupy our trench, they will definitely use it to exchange fire with our two trenches. You said we nailed the barbed wire mesh that was blown into sections. Where could the Japanese find out in a hurry? It's a pity that there is no arsenic or something, or if one of them is bleeding, they will die..."

"This is not simple! The dead mouse is poisonous enough. Use it as a guide, use pig blood and rotten meat for a few days, and apply it to the wire mesh... Hehe, it's not OK to poison people on the spot, but the person who has been stabbed probably won't live for a few days..."

... On the battlefield, the veterans who have fought for several years have gone to many evil moves. Those inconspicuous tricks made many Japanese devils die in a mess. Unfortunately, they are all the experiences explored by individual troops. Without the promotion of the entire army, the Japanese would die at least several times more... Listening to the various secret tricks of the soldiers, Cao Xiaomin remembered that Grandpa had a chapter about the tricks he knew about. Yes! Chinese soldiers come from all over the world, hunters, farmers, and gangsters in the world. How good is this method of damage to the locals? Summarize all these experiences and tricks and compile them into a book, and it would be great to use them all in the entire army!

"The morale is good, but..." Zhang Jingyue trotted over: "I checked. These recruits have been trained for more than three months and have the basic combat qualities. But most of them have never killed anyone..."

A bolt from the blue! Cao Xiaomin suddenly realized what he was worried about: he always felt that these recruits were full of enthusiasm but always something was wrong. After Zhang Jingyue said this, he realized that he did not feel murderous in these soldiers who looked very strong and mighty!

The soldiers who died in the Shao family, even the deserters, had one thing in common, and had rolled out from the dead! Including the common people who joined the army halfway, they were either burdened with blood feud or were shocked by the murders of the Japanese... But what else do these recruits transferred from the rear, besides patriotic enthusiasm? Pictures of flesh and blood cemeteries appeared in Cao Xiaomin's mind: How many of these enthusiastic recruits can survive in the cruel battlefield!?

"Our army is preparing to retreat. The 305th Regiment is under the rear of the 74th Army. The military headquarters decided to temporarily place the model battalion into the 305th Regiment. Your mission is to guard the pavilion and cut off the rear of the three armies!" The military order finally came down...

The battle is about to start again, and the rear is blocking, and another death battle!

The sky in early winter was gray and it was impossible to tell the difference between morning and evening; Cao Xiaomin looked at the military commanders who were leaving and looked back at the new brothers who were sweating profusely; the five hundred people looked no different, and the same military uniform and dusty faces looked like black and white photos of the event under the dark sky... Five hundred people, now he could remember no more than ten names!
Chapter completed!