Guangyuan was originally a mountainous county with many mountains and few lands, and in order to find a place where nearly 2,000 soldiers could conduct exercises, the high-ranking officials of the Independent Regiment also put a lot of effort into it.

In the end, they found a suitable location in a dry river valley 25 miles away from the base of the independent regiment, which was seven or eight miles long and nearly 800 meters wide, just enough to accommodate the exercise troops.

Since Liu Lang returned from overseas, he signed a military order, and the independent regiment transferred 1,500 people from the escort teams of various villages in Guangyuan, and assigned disabled veterans from each village as instructors, and 1,100 of these 1,500 people were organized into a blue army according to the Japanese infantry brigade.

This blue army is the opponent arranged by Liu Lang for the independent regiment, a unit formed purely in imitation of the Japanese army. In order to more truly reflect the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army, this blue army unit not only uses the Japanese infantry brigade, but also uses pure Japanese equipment for weapons and ammunition, and even wears Japanese military uniforms. This made it difficult for the members of the escort to accept, and after hearing the news, at least half of them chose to go home, even if they did not want the extra allowance of twenty oceans per person per month.

It was Zhang Ruhao, the deputy of the regiment, who came out and talked to them bitterly. Tell them not to let them wear this yellow skin to fight the little devils, but to accompany the infantry battalions of the Independent Regiment to train, and let them do the little devils well. He also promised that as long as they practiced well, if the regular army of the Independent Regiment could be defeated in the formal exercise, then when the Independent Regiment replenished its troops, it would definitely be replenished from their thousands of commanders. Even if you still don't want to do it, don't be a guard when you go back.

All kinds of "coercion and temptation" reluctantly left more than 1,000 people. With regimental deputy Zhang Ruhao as the captain of the Blue Army, five deputy companies were selected from the four infantry battalions to serve as the squadron leaders of the Blue Army, a total of four infantry squadrons and one machine gun squadron, and a deputy company was drawn from the artillery battalion to serve as the artillery squadron leader of the Blue Army.

Not only did the Blue Army have the same structure as the Japanese infantry brigade, but all tactical requirements had to be the same as those of the Japanese army, and even the battle orders had to be completed in Japanese. Their garrison was near that river valley, and under the hard training of regimental deputy Zhang Ruhao, the entire blue army had to train hard for nearly three months before it could be regarded as initially forming combat effectiveness.

If it weren't for the fact that the Sichuan-accented Japanese at the time of shouting the battle order revealed that they were a group of Chinese soldiers, at first glance, it would have been a Japanese infantry brigade.

Regardless of the recruits and veterans of the Independent Regiment, except for the more than 200 people who participated in the Songhu War of Resistance two years ago and the Japanese invaders fought hard against the Japanese invaders in the Songhu area, the rest basically had no experience of fighting the Japanese invaders on the plains.

Don't look at the Great Wall, these elites fought fiercely with the Japanese invaders, but the Great Wall Battle began with mountain defense, and when it came to the pursuit of the Eighth Division, the opponent had no artillery, and their own artillery had a huge advantage, so it was not completely with the Japanese invaders in the plains of the field, especially when the troops were slightly weaker and there was no help from their own artillery.

Although Liu Lang will be armed to the teeth under his command 37 years ago, what if there is no fire support? Can't the independent regiment fight? It must not be. According to Liu Lang's idea, the independent regiment must be trained to compete with the Japanese army even if it only has light weapons. Because, no one can guarantee that in the battle of the Grand Army, the independent regiment will be able to obtain effective supplies, and Liu Lang even thought of the protracted war after the General War. The soldiers of the independent regiment had to learn the experience of fighting the Japanese army with "sticks".

This is exactly what the Red Army, which did not even have a few mortars, did it for eight years. Even the regular army of the national government is far inferior to the Japanese army in terms of weapons.

Therefore, the four infantry battalions of the independent regiment, no matter which battalion they were, did not receive artillery support from the artillery battalion, and the fire support platoon of the infantry company was not allowed to fight, and all they could use were Czech-made light machine guns and Maxim heavy machine guns brought out of the regimental warehouse, and all new weapons were not used.

There was no MG42, no mountain artillery, the mortars were reduced to the same level as the Central Army, and the firepower of the infantry battalions was instantly reduced to one-third of the previous one.

On the other hand, on the Blue Army's side, all firepower configurations are equipped according to the standard infantry brigade of the Japanese army. A machine gun squadron has a total of 12 Type 92 heavy machine guns, a 50-man artillery squad has two Type 92 infantry guns, and a squadron has three infantry squads.

However, in the Blue Army's imitation of the Japanese squad, Liu Lang made some changes, and did not follow the current Japanese squad. According to the current Japanese squad, a squad is two light machine guns and two groups of grenadiers, but in fact, after the start of the all-out war, the Japanese army made changes to the infantry squad in order to strengthen the attack power of the grassroots troops. The light machine guns were sent to the squad, but the grenadiers were strengthened, and a grenadier squad with three grenadier teams was formed.

Therefore, the Blues squad is composed of three infantry squads and one grenadier squad, which contains three light machine guns and three grenadier squads.

At this time, from brigade-level firepower to squadron-level firepower or squad-level firepower, the Blue Army is above the infantry battalion of the Independent Regiment, and whether it is Chi Dakui's first battalion with more than 700 people or Cheng Yuanshan's bayonet battalion with only more than 490 people, Zhou Shiyu's death battalion, and Li Guobin's Panshi battalion, they all have to deal with the attack of the blue army troops alone.

What is even more excessive is that the company-level commanders of other branches of the military who served as referees for the exercise will more or less favor the blue army units. For example, if the mortar hits the area 40 meters in front of the firing point of that side, it will basically kill the other side, after all, this is a drill, and you can't really bomb the opponent with a single shot.

But this distance depends on how the referees decide, often the Blues grenadiers bombarded to the point that they were still 50 meters away, and the firepower of the troops participating in the exercise on the side of the independent regiment was declared over, and the machine gunners could only withdraw from the position with the machine guns and declare them dead. Because, too, the machine gun was "blown up". On the Blues' side, if you don't shoot twice in a row in the same position, the referee in the Blues' position won't be able to bird you.

According to them, God knows if you can fight so accurately when you actually fight? What if your level is like that? Among them, the commander of a certain artillery battalion, who served as vice president and judge and did not participate in the exercise, was the most arrogant; anyone who saw that the mortars of the troops participating in the exercise of the opposite independent regiment were a little far away from the fire point of the blue army and did not reach the distance that he thought was ideal, and the mortar position on the opposite side was destroyed by infantry artillery.

, the cannon is so bad that Lao Tzu can shoot a shot, and he was sentenced to death like this, which is simply unreasonable. However, the commander of a certain artillery battalion did not bother to explain at all, and in his coaxing words, artillery is no different from infantry, and if you can't kill others at once, it should be someone else's turn to blow you up. Do you think the infantry artillery of the little devils in real combat is vegetarian? It's not a permanent fortification, and a shot will let you fly into the sky.

The battalion-level commanders of the independent regiment were so angry that they vomited blood, but they were helpless. Of course, they knew that behind this must be the instruction of the regimental commander. Otherwise, those guys would dare to give them eye medicine like this? Not to mention the three newly promoted infantry battalion commanders, Chi Da Quina is a serious lieutenant colonel, one of the cores of the independent regiment, and Liu Tuanzuo's first confidant and favorite general, not only rolled his eyes when he was pitted, but he could only scold his mother on the position.

The firepower is not as good, the number is not as good, plus it is a drill, you can't play the independent regimental desperate Saburo who pokes me in the belly and wants to bite off half of your ear, as long as he is hit by an empty bullet, he will be sentenced to death, and there is no chance to fight again. Of course, there was also the partiality of the referee Chi Guoguo, who stole the spotlight, and the infantry battalions of the four independent regiments were defeated under the attack of the Blue Army without any suspense.

Chi Dakui's battalion, which lasted the longest, only lasted for a day and a night, and finally organized and prepared for a night attack, but was trapped by the Chinese-style trap of the blue army on the opposite side, and nearly two platoons were trapped. Under the command of Zhang Ruhao, there were two squadrons waiting for Chi Dakui to come to this trick that the Chinese army was most accustomed to; when the flares lit up over a company participating in the night attack, the two platoons that rushed to the front were directly judged to lose by the referee team, and only two platoons that were dozens of meters behind were able to evacuate.

When half of the people were lost in the battle, even if Chi Dakui still wanted to persevere, he had no chance. According to him, more than 300 people were no longer enough to resist the continued attack of more than 800 "Japanese invaders", especially when the other side would send additional planes and heavy artillery to participate in the battle.

This is true of a battalion with a strength of more than 700 people, not to mention the other three small battalions of less than 500 people, which lost half of the battle in just one day, and was also kicked out of the battlefield by Liu Lang.

The month-long competition of the independent regiment ended with the defeat of the four main infantry battalions of the independent regiment.

The victorious Blues were each rewarded with 10 oceans, a five-day leave, and a new uniform for the Independent Regiment, unworthy of military rank. This can make the more than 1,000 village guards very excited, although they do not have military ranks, it almost means that they have become independent regiment reserve soldiers, as long as they are expanded, they will definitely be selected.

You must know that according to the practice of the national army, a reorganized regiment has a mobile establishment of 1,500 strong men.

The four ambitious battalion commanders were all gloomy, and on the night after all the exercises, they gathered at the regimental headquarters office of Liu Tuanzao.