Chapter 226: Survival in the Wild (1) (The first update, the fifth watch today, please subscribe)
One way or another, the hellish life of the 48 soldiers who participated in the selection and training of the special brigade began. The other officers and men were not idle, and all units were proceeding in an orderly manner according to the training plan drawn up by Liu Lang.
Ordinary soldiers have no right to know the news that they will have to fight with the Japanese army after the New Year, but officers above the even level have been woken up by Liu Lang intentionally or unintentionally, although I don't know why Liu Lang is so sure that the Kwantung Army will definitely invade Rehe next year, but everyone knows that it is only a matter of time before the Japanese invade China.
When you fight, you will die, and only by training desperately and training elite soldiers will there be fewer deaths, which is a truth that everyone understands. With a sense of urgency, the Independent Regiment roared forward like a well-wound machine.
On September 26, Liu Xiang, the superintendent of the aftermath of Sichuan and Liu Wenhui, the provincial chairman, completely exchanged evil, the situation was tense, Liu Wenhui took the lead in gathering troops in Chengdu when Liu Xiang had not yet reacted, and prepared to solve Tian Songyao's department and then fight a decisive battle with Liu Xiang.
On October 1, the Sichuan War broke out, Luo Zezhou and Liu Wenhui of the 12th Division of the 28th Army came into contact with each other in Wusheng, and on the 6th, Li Jiayu and Luo Zezhou attacked Shunqing and were defeated by Liu Wenhui's army. On the 10th, Liu Wenhui's 24th Army besieged Deng Xihou and Tian Songyao's headquarters in the suburbs of Chengdu, and on the 18th, Liu Xiang's army concentrated in Rongchang, with Tang Shizun, Pan Wenhua, and Wang Zhangxu as the commanders-in-chief, and on the 20th, Liu Wenhui's army retreated from Shunqing to Suining. On the 21st, the generals of Sichuan sent a telegram to Beijing, asking Liu Wenhui to be dismissed, and publicly recommended Liu Xiang as the commander-in-chief of the Sichuan-Kang appeasement, Tian Songyao as the deputy commander, and Deng Xihou, Tian Songyao, Yang Sen, and Liu Xiang as the commander-in-chief of the four routes.
The 19th Route Army also completely moved to Fujian and incorporated Chen Guohui, Zhang Zhen and other miscellaneous troops under Chairman Chiang's telegram, but the only difference was that this time the 19th Route Army did not raise troops to occupy the western Fujian Soviet region and the southern Fujian guerrilla area as it had done in the past, but took the initiative to secretly contact the leaders of the red troops.
This is because Liu Lang told Cai Tingkai that although the red army has a strong ability to absorb the patriotic army, but at the same time, because of the bald principal's brazen rebellion against the revolution, he maintains a high degree of vigilance against the national army system.
In fact, it was precisely because of the Red Army's distrust of the 19th Route Army that the 19th Route Army was defeated so quickly, but no one can be blamed, and whoever in that situation might have made the same choice! The 150,000-strong army that the bald headmaster used to besiege Fujian was not something that the 19th Route Army and the thousands of red troops in Fujian could resist.
In that secret conversation with Cai Tingkai, although Liu Lang didn't say it too clearly, it was to the effect that he wanted to get rid of the control of the bald principal, and he didn't necessarily have to change his ways.
But from Cai Tingkai's stroke of the pen and the gift of 500 elites to Liu Lang, it can be seen that he and the commander-in-chief's dissatisfaction with the bald principal has reached its peak, and if they can stay in a corner away from the Nanjing regime, it will definitely explode.
It's just that Liu Lang single-handedly said what they were thinking, which made Cai Tingkai a little more scruples, and a small major communications officer could even know it, not to mention the bald headmaster who had become fabulous in the political struggle?
However, judging from the current situation of the 19th Route Army in Fujian, it is much better than in the historical time and space, Cai Tingkai and Jiang Guangding did not blindly expand the troops as they once did, but withstood the pressure of the Nanjing government's non-stop telegram order to attack the red Soviet area, purged the existing troops, and moved to Fujian for three months, but only replenished the strength of less than 30,000 troops. You must know that as soon as the 19th Route Army arrived in Fujian, it took half a year to expand the army to nearly 100,000 people, but the 100,000 horses who did not have much sense of belonging collapsed under the encirclement of the bald principal's 150,000 army, and surrendered almost without any decent resistance, and the original more than 20,000 people really resisted for a month.
The 19th Route Army on the Fujian side was able to resist the pressure, naturally not because of how big their face was, but because the bald headmaster's attention was not on them at all, and the bald headmaster was now mobilizing troops to carry out an iron-bucket encirclement of the base area of the red army with 400,000 troops.
It's just that it's still the same as in the historical time and space, and Taizu, the most outstanding military strategist of the Red Army, who later became the first person to build the country, was still transferred out of the military command post of the Red Army and became the leader of the government. This made Liu Lang a little regretful, although the future commander-in-chief and prime minister of the republic led the red troops in February next year will defeat the bald principal in the Yihuang area, a total of three divisions were annihilated and captured, and the bald principal was sadly urged to be the captain of the transport brigade, but Liu Lang hoped to see that the most talented military thinker in the history of the republic gave full play to the essence of sports warfare The performance was still in vain, although his little butterfly tried hard to kick the butt of the wheel of history, but he could only leave a footprint sadly, and did not change the rut that should have been in space-time.
In the blink of an eye, it was winter, and although Sichuan in December was not particularly cold because the Qinling Mountains blocked the cold wind from the north, it still snowed heavily, which was several degrees lower than the temperature in Sichuan 80 years later because of the greenhouse effect.
At the end of the month, Liu Wenhui resigned because of the defeat and led 20,000 remnants to retreat to Ya'an, and the battle of Erliu was temporarily suspended.
Cai Dadao and Niu Er were wearing a slightly bloated winter camouflage uniform just issued a month ago and were trekking hard in the forest, after three months of hellish training, both of them have faded from their former youthfulness, and their increasingly dark faces and resolute eyes tell everyone that even in this harsh environment, they will still complete the most difficult assessment project of the special brigade --- survive in the wild.
Cai Dadao looked eagerly at the clearly recognizable mountain road a few miles down the mountain and licked his extremely dry lips, he knew very well what his body needed, hot food and water.
There is water in the mountains, but in such a cold weather, drinking a large amount of raw water is very easy to cause diarrhea, if you pull up the stomach, if you don't go down the mountain to ask for help, waiting for him will inevitably die.
The water is good, it is really thirsty, the dew on the leaves and the pure mountain stream can still keep the body with the necessary water when drunk, and the most painful thing is the food, although it is difficult to drill wood for fire, but it is not to say that it is desperate, but the simulated war environment tells them from the beginning that no smoke is allowed, and without fire, they can only eat raw food.
This is the seventh day of their journey in the forest, and from the first day they entered the forest with a small bag of salt, a knife, and a map, the duo has survived by Cai Dadao's fairly skilled hunting skills, such as fat poisonous snakes hiding in burrows, pine nuts and acorns hidden in tree hollows by squirrels, small fish caught in the cold in mountain streams, and even grass leopards that attack them out of hungerγγγγγ It had become food for both of them, but it was all raw, and the hot blood of the hapless grass leopard had become the hottest food for the two recruits these days.
If there is a mountain road, there will be a family, and if there is a family, there will be something that his body needs.
However, as soon as they descended the mountain, they lost.
Looking at Niu Er, who was already swaying in front of him and his body was close to overdraft, but he still didn't look at the mountain road and stubbornly walked forward, Cai Dadao sighed slightly and withdrew his almost greedy gaze, he was sure that even if he risked violating the rules to go to the hot food from the farmhouse at the bottom of the mountain, this slightly stubborn old brother would not eat it, and as long as he could get out of this forest alive, he would definitely report himself, even if he had helped him in the previous assessment.
Niu Er, who is not particularly outstanding in all aspects, can persist to this point, I am afraid it is because of his stubbornness beyond ordinary people!
It was a stubborn brother who made it difficult not to have respect, and Cai Dadao even thought that the reason why he was able to survive like a wild man in the mountains for seven days was because of Niu Er, although almost all of the food was because of his outstanding hunter skills.