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Chapter 347, Becoming a Unlucky Ghost

"Platoon leader, why do they each take hundreds of bullets, while we each fire twenty?"

The recruit who raised the question was called Zhang Shengkui. He was young and strong, and his eyes were full of grievances. He thought he had been treated unfairly.

He had just joined the army for only a week, and even the instructor told him that the troops of the Eighth Route Army are equal to officers and soldiers, and no one can bully another.

Then why did he receive less than others?

"Heh, there really is someone who doesn't know the heights of the sky and the depths of the earth."

The platoon leader Liu Deguang glanced at many recruits, and asked loudly: "Who is still not convinced, raise your hand and let me see."

Zhang Shengkui was the first to raise his hand. With his encouragement, many new recruits became courageous and raised their hands in response.

The veterans on the side of the line looked at these recruits with mentally retarded eyes.

Platoon Leader Liu had a headache when he saw this scene.

The number of troops has to be doubled, and he has jumped from a squad leader to a platoon leader. It is a good thing to be promoted, but there are also constant troubles.

The former recruit Danzi spent a month in the recruit company training, not only mastering the fighting skills, but also relatively mature in thinking.

It's not like now, it's all a bunch of semi-finished products.

Platoon Leader Liu beckoned the recruits to put them down, and said to them, "I tell you, don't be dissatisfied. The recruits fire twenty rounds, and that's only in our sub-military area.

Go and find out what the troops in other parts of the Eighth Route Army look like.

Each person was only issued ten bullets at most, and only two bullets when he first joined the army.

The bullets you take are ten times that of recruits from other regions.That is to say, our military regions are rich, otherwise where would you find such a good job. "

"Is that so?" Zhang Shengkui obviously lost his confidence when he asked.

If what the platoon leader said was true, then he was not greedy enough.

The recruit squad leader said angrily: "Of course it is true. When you know more about it in the future, you will know how lucky it is to be a soldier in our sub-military region."

"The weapons used are the most advanced, the most victories are fought, and the most little devils are eliminated.

The frequency of food improvement is also more than that of other troops. The delicious canned luncheon meat, the little devils do not eat as much as us. "

Platoon Leader Liu listed some advantages, educating the recruits, it is really a blessing to be able to go to their military divisions and to have their own independent regiment.

Whether it is good or not is a comparison.

As far as food is concerned, they can eat canned luncheon meat once a week and taste the meat.

If this is compared with that of the American soldiers, it is incomparable.

The American soldiers thought the canned luncheon meat was unpalatable, so they opened it and took two bites, and threw it away. The South Korean soldiers picked it up and made it into army pot.

If compared with other Eighth Route Army, then this food is worth cherishing.

Whether the recruits are good or not, I just heard from the veterans, and I don't have a specific concept yet.

But they are satisfied with the canned luncheon meat they eat.

Now thinking of the canned luncheon meat he ate the day before yesterday, Zhang Shengkui still had a fresh memory and couldn't help swallowing.

He was born in an abject poverty family without an acre of land or a room.My father has asthma and cannot work well to support the family.

When she was 10 years old, her father had to sell her 14-year-old sister for 180 yuan as a child bride.

In Zhang Shengkui's memory, he was a child who wore tattered clothes and went up the mountain to collect grass and firewood every day.

After one and a half years of primary school, he dropped out of school due to poverty.

At the age of 12, he came to work as a long-term worker in the master's house.Eight liters of corn per year.

He got up early every day and worked desperately after dark.

Once the landlord asked him to drive the donkey to pull the soil. The donkey ran ahead, and asked him to pick up a load of soil and run behind the donkey. He was too tired to bear it at such a young age.

In the evening, he fled home crying and said that he would never work as a long-term worker in the landlord's house again.

The family asked him to learn to be a mason, in fact, he was a small laborer for others.

Eating meat is a luxury for Zhang Shengkui. In his 16 years of memory, he only remembers eating rat meat twice.

At other times, he hoped that he would not be hungry every day, and he didn't even dare to think about eating meat.

His family was so poor that he couldn't open the pot, so when he heard that the Eighth Route Army was here to recruit soldiers and take care of the food, he came here without hesitation.

A correspondent ran over and whispered something to Liu Deguang, and he turned around and announced to everyone: "The company commander gave us a mission to attack the gun tower in Liushuzhuang."

A veteran squad leader raised a question: "Platoon leader, let's go out? Two-thirds of the recruits are recruits. They may not even be able to hold their guns steadily. Can they fight down the gun tower?"

If the army expands too fast, the combat effectiveness will drop drastically if the number of recruits is too large.

If the entire platoon was filled with veterans like them, it would be true at all, and they would clean up the enemy simply and neatly.

There are too many recruits now, and the veterans have no idea.

In case there are too many casualties among the recruits, and the gun towers have not been taken down, there is no way to explain when they come back.

"If you don't cut jade, you can't make a weapon. A new soldier will become a veteran after fighting a few battles."

Platoon Commander Liu made a grandiose statement, and changed his voice to reveal the reliance of this trip: "The company commander will assign us a bazooka team. As long as we get 100 meters away from the gun tower, it will be the turn of those **** crying fathers and mothers." .”

The older squad leader had nothing to say, they had also heard that the bazooka was powerful.

After taking down the mountain city ten days ago, the Special Forces used that thing to deal with the enemy.

Even the gates of the city can be blasted open, let alone a small artillery tower.

"Let's go now."

That was Zhang Shengkui's first battle, and everything went very smoothly.

Under the cover of the machine gun, the bazooka team arrived at the predetermined position, and a rocket fired a big hole in the wall of the turret.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the enemies inside could only wave the white flag and choose to surrender.

But Zhang Shengkui also had regrets. He fired seven shots and fired seven bullets, but he didn't hit a single enemy.

The veteran told him: "Just having bullets is not enough, you have to practice marksmanship. If you are not good at marksmanship, no matter how many bullets are given to you, it is a waste."

From this, Zhang Shengkui secretly made up his mind that he must practice his marksmanship well so that others can look down on him.

This battle to attack the gun tower was just a small microcosm of what happened in the Zhongtiao Mountain area.

The four infantry regiments that swelled in a circle, with each company and platoon as a unit, launched a one-month training by fighting.

Not only to attack the Japanese and puppet troops entrenched around, but also to train the combat effectiveness of the recruits so that the overall combat effectiveness of the troops will not drop too much.

……

The headquarters of the First Army in Taiyuan, the spacious conference room, and the long bar table, are full of senior officers.

Five or six major generals, twelve or three major commanders, and half of the senior officers of the First Army gathered here.

If a bomb is dropped in this meeting room, the entire First Army stationed in Shanxi will be paralyzed.

Commander Yoshio Iwamatsu was sitting at one end of the strip table, reading a thick stack of reports.

This is a meeting to study General Ning Ci of Gangcun, the plan of North China security war.The attendees of the meeting were all in good spirits, showing that they were studying hard.

There is no need to say more about the resume of General Gangcun Ningci.

He is an out-and-out China hand. At the beginning of his tenure, he visited various places in North China to understand the situation in various aspects.

In the days that followed, Okamura Ningji carefully planned and formulated a "Three-Year Public Security Plan" with the main goal of eliminating the Rabbit Party and the Eighth Route Army, that is, the North China Public Security War.

According to this plan, Neiji Okamura divided North China into three types,
Namely: "Public security area", "Quasi public security area" and "Not public security area".

The so-called "security area" refers to the area under the control and occupation of the Japanese army and its surroundings;

The so-called "quasi law and order area" refers to the area where the forces of the two sides intersect, and it is also a guerrilla area where the Eighth Route Army often operates;
The so-called "unsafe area" refers to the anti-Japanese base area.

Neiji Okamura plans to change the "non-security area" into a "quasi-security area" within three years.

Change the "quasi law and order area" to "law and order area".

Gradually narrow the "unsafe area" and expand the "safe area".

Okamura Ningji took different measures for different regions.

For "safety areas", Qingxiang is the main focus.

The "Qingxiang Movement" took "military and political advancement simultaneously, suppression and appeasement at the same time", and "three divisions of military and seven divisions of politics" as the policy.

Villages were merged into townships, puppet regimes were established from counties to townships and villages, Baojia Liansi was implemented, and slavery rule was strengthened.

In the law and order area, the puppet army was responsible for the security task, while the Japanese army was deployed to advance to the "quasi law and order area".

For "quasi law and order areas", "cannibalization" is the main method.

Its central idea is to plunder property and turn "quasi-law and order areas" into no-man's land, thereby consolidating its sphere of influence.

The general approach is to gradually divide the Eighth Route Base Area from the outside to the inside by relying on the transportation network, adjusting the fort, and the trench wall, gradually turning the liberated area into an occupied area.

For villages that cannot be occupied, turn them into no man's land to prevent the in-depth activities of the Eighth Route Army.

For "unsafe areas", military offensives are the mainstay.

A large number of troops were dispatched to continuously carry out "mopping up" operations, dismantling and destroying base area facilities and military supplies, and implementing a cruel "three alls" policy.

It made the Eighth Route Army unable to settle down and carry out construction, so that it gradually developed into a "quasi law and order area".

In recent days, after careful planning and preparation, Neiji Okamura first mobilized troops.

The mopping up of the Jinchaji Border Region will last for more than two months.

This "mopping up" was called "Million Wars" by Neji Okamura.

Its name is only one letter different from "Hundred Regiments War", and its purpose is to demonstrate to the Rabbit Party and the Eighth Route Army led by it, to show that this is revenge for the Hundred Regiments War.

At present, the sweep has only been carried out for half a month, and it has already achieved remarkable results.

The North China Dispatch Army Command issued an order requiring all troops to study carefully and innovate tactics.

Once the above documents are down, the people below will naturally have to learn from the pole.

Studying, discussing, and expressing their opinions, a meeting lasted for three and a half hours, from afternoon to night.

I don’t know if I didn’t learn it or not. The old waist of many senior military officers couldn’t take it anymore, and they left after the meeting.

Yan Songyixiong returned to the office and saw an officer standing there waiting straight at the door.

"It's Yamashita-kun, come in."

Toshihide Yamashita, who had been waiting all afternoon, stood stiffly.He held onto the wall to keep himself from falling.

Originally, he was eligible to attend the afternoon meeting, but due to successive failures, he was deprived of his military post.

He was excluded from the study session in the afternoon.

Yoshio Iwamatsu sat on a comfortable chair and looked at this subordinate.

He still remembered that two months ago, Toshihide Yamashita was promoted to the captain of the Dazuo United, and he looked very young in high spirits.

Now, the hair is grayer, and the eyelids droop, revealing an old look.He is not yet fifty and looks like a 60-year-old man.

"I've been waiting for a long time, what's the matter with you?"

Toshihide Yamashita held back his words for a few days, and finally got the chance to let go, and said immediately:

"Commander, the eighth road entrenched in Zhongtiao Mountain has already taken root and sprouted.

This is the information collected recently. They have recruited a large number of recruits to carry out guerrilla operations in the surrounding areas controlled by our army.

At present, there have been more than 37 battles of various sizes, and strongholds and gun towers have been attacked to varying degrees.

I don't think this trend can last long. If they are given a period of time to develop, the Eight Routes entrenched in Zhongtiao Mountain will become a cancerous tumor.

A dagger stuck in the heart, causing the imperial army to continuously lose blood. "

The intelligence was not wrong. The intelligence summary Yoshio Iwamatsu heard this morning was even more serious than what Toshihide Yamashita said. The Eighth Route Army had already started to attack and disturb the surrounding counties.

He didn't express his opinion in a hurry, he looked up at Junxiu Yamashita and asked, "What kind of solution do you have?"

Toshihide Yamashita raised a question, and naturally he had already thought of a solution.

"Commander, I want to review our previous failures, our actions were too reckless, and we always thought of accomplishing one battle.

As everyone knows, this gave the Eight Route Army a chance, which led to the failure of our army.

This time, I think that learning from Commander Ningji Okamura's strategy for public security in North China,
Three parts military and seven parts politics, encroaching step by step, shrinking the living space of the Eight Roads bit by bit, and then destroying them. "

He handed over a well-written encirclement and suppression plan report, most of which referred to the plan that Gangmura Ningci was implementing.

On the one hand, Toshihide Yamashita agrees with Neiji Okamura's method, on the other hand, it can pull the flag and increase the feasibility of his plan.

After all, he is now a loathsome loser.

People will only follow the advice of successful people, no one will listen to a loser.

Yan Songyi absent-mindedly opened the proposal, and to be honest, the writing was not bad.

But the point is who came up with it.

How failed is Toshihide Yamashita?

He himself was a notorious jerk, falling three times in the same place.The two generals who followed before and after were both defeated and killed.

After being suspended from work, I went to visit my old friend. The county where my old friend was stationed was attacked by the Eighth Route Army, and the city was destroyed overnight, and no one escaped back.

On the contrary, Toshihide Yamashita has been living well except for a lame leg.

Everyone is spreading the word that he is a disaster star, and anyone who gets close to him will be unlucky.

If you are fighting side by side, you have to be more careful, you will be defeated by the cursed soldiers.

Yoshio Iwamatsu doesn't believe in superstition, but with so many things happening, he has doubts deep in his heart.

After flipping through a few pages of the plan, he said: "Yamashita-san, your plan is good. But at present we can no longer deploy troops to do these things.

After the million-dollar battle of General Ningji Okamura is over, we will consider the plan to encircle and suppress Zhongtiaoshan Balu. "

The commander's prevarication was like a bolt from the blue, paralyzing everyone in Junxiu Town under the mountain.

He is like a walking dead, walking on the streets of Taiyuan.I don't even know how I got out.

Fortunately, he did not die in the hands of Eight Road, but the successive failures also made his future bleak.

What should we do?

He couldn't help looking up to the sky and sighing: "Li Yunlong, Li Yunlong, a terrible enemy, how can I make you never recover?"

"Is it Colonel Toshihide Yamashita?"

A Japanese military officer passing by had a look of surprise on his face. Seeing the confused look on the other side, he introduced himself: "I am Mashiko Shigeo, and I have just been transferred from the 36th Division."

"Yizi-kun..."

Toshihide Yamashita had vaguely heard of this person, and he was an authentic Chinese hand.

"Yamashita-kun, I heard you mention Li Yunlong, do you know him well?" Mashiko Shigeo asked.

Toshihide Yamashita was not embarrassed, and admitted openly: "Yes, I have been defeated by this man three times. No one in the imperial army knows him better than me."

"That's great. I'm collecting information on this person, and I need someone who understands him."

Mashiko Shigeo invited: "Yamashita-kun, can we have a drink together?"

"of course can."

Meeting like-minded people, Toshihide Yamashita's inner depression was swept away.

At the wine table afterwards, he confided the experience he had painstakingly researched and summarized, as well as the various information he had obtained, to his new acquaintance Mashiko Shigeo.

(End of this chapter)