readx; "Battalion commander, Captain Wang has now crossed the river, and our main force is expected to be able to reach the riverside in an hour! A lieutenant approached a middle-aged man in the combat uniform of a colonel officer and said respectfully. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The person in front of him was named Han San, the major battalion commander of the 4732 infantry battalion, and he was ordered to lead the troops to drive from the rear for a day, in order to cross the river and attack the Yue army.

Han San, the name is very simple, like most children in the countryside, his original name was taken by parents who had not read in the countryside, because he ranked third, so he was always called like this, and after going to school, the teacher officially set the name, and it was called Han San.

If Captain Wang is just from an ordinary middle class, then this Han San is a veritable poor background. In the past 10 years, children of low-income families in China's rural or urban areas have always regarded joining the army as an important way to change their fate, and the temptation to join the army is not only reflected in the excellent food and employment arrangements after retirement, but also many people hope that after completing three years of compulsory military service, they will be converted into volunteers and promoted to non-commissioned officers. If you have been in the army for more than ten years, it is not difficult to get the rank of sergeant or even sergeant, and the non-commissioned officer has been out of the category of compulsory soldiers, so this salary is not small, and it is stable for a sergeant to get twenty or thirty yuan a month. You must know that in the era when the income of ordinary residents is generally only about 10 yuan, such an income is already an absolutely high salary.

The various benefits after joining the army attracted a large number of rural disciples to rush to sign up for the army in order to get rid of the fate of being farmers all their lives.

However, 99 percent of this kind of participation in the army refers only to soldiers, not officers.

China's officer system has always been very strict, whether it is the army, the air force or the navy, their officers are all from military academies, and there is only one way for soldiers to be promoted to officers, that is, to go to military schools. Whether you apply for the exam yourself or are appreciated by your boss and recommended to enter a military school, if you want to be an officer, you must have the experience of going to a military school. In 1923, during the war, there was a case where all the officers of a certain company were killed or seriously injured, and the battalion to which it belonged suffered heavy casualties, and it was impossible to draw out redundant officers to lead the infantry company, and finally a sergeant in this company commanded the soldiers of the company as the chief of the division, even if this situation did not appear, it was said that the sergeant would be directly promoted to officer. One can imagine how strict the officer system is.

If a rural child can be appreciated by his boss and recommended to enter a military school during his compulsory military service, this is nothing. However, if you are directly admitted to a military school after graduating from middle school, this kind of example is not to say that there are none, but it is definitely a minority.

According to China's current education system, it is not a big problem for children from rural families and low-income urban families to complete a primary school, but the next secondary education is not a problem for the vast majority of children from rural and urban low-income families, and the high tuition fees at the secondary school level are enough to cause headaches for middle-class families.

However, the high tuition fees are only for self-financed students, and among the students above the secondary school level, there are still a large number of scholarship students, and the current policy of the Ministry of Education for higher education is very simple, that is, to use a self-financed student to bear the cost of scholarship students. Self-financed students aside, and those who can get scholarships are all high-achieving students, and in addition to some middle-class students with excellent grades, many of these students are low-income families and rural children.

Although on the surface, children from low-income families also account for nearly half of China's higher education resources. But considering that low income accounts for more than 95 percent of all households in China, the average is insignificant per student. After graduating from middle school, the children of these low-income families will not only continue to enter higher secondary schools or normal schools, but also choose to work to support their families, after all, after they graduate and work, their income is not cheap, which is enough for their families in rural areas to live a good life.

If you sign up for the army, you have to study for another three years, although you don't have to spend tuition and other expenses during your studies, but there is no military salary, only a small amount of pocket money subsidies, and when you enter the army after graduation, you are only a second lieutenant at the beginning, and the salary is not high, and you will have to stay up for many years before you can be promoted to lieutenant and captain, and then you have not waited for more than ten years to be an officer, this retirement age has arrived, and then you have to be forced to retire from active service. Not every officer can climb up smoothly step by step.

Therefore, unlike the children of upper-class families who enthusiastically sign up for military schools, and unlike the low-income disciples who have not gone to middle school, the proportion of children from low-income families who apply for military schools after completing middle school or high school is relatively small.

Therefore, there are naturally not many officers like Han San, you must know that in the 1922 class of infantry section where he studied, he was the only one in the class who was born in the countryside.

However, his luck and strength are good, as a person who has received a full scholarship since elementary school and has been taking it for more than ten years, his intelligence is naturally first-class, plus luck is also good, from the Wuhan Military Academy, among the more than 300 graduates of the infantry department, he ranks thirteenth in the infantry department, and is also among the best, and those who are in front of him are all children from military families, those people have been exposed to military knowledge since childhood, and their achievements can be among the ranks, It's enough to prove his ingenuity.

Otherwise, he would not have been promoted to major at the age of twenty-nine, although this speed is incomparable with Wang Geng, who was promoted to major general before the age of thirty, but Wang Geng and some other young people who were promoted to generals are special cases, and cannot be put in the entire army's officer promotion system, and Han San's promotion path is the same as other officers, slowly climbing step by step, first platoon commander, then deputy company commander, company commander, and then battalion commander. It is the standard path for the promotion of basic officers.

Han San looked at the marching troops around him, and his heart also gave birth to a sense of pride, just imagine that when he was a child, how could he have thought that he would become an officer leading thousands of troops.

If you are lucky enough in this battle, it is not impossible to rise to the rank of lieutenant colonel, and when the time comes, when you return to your hometown, even the mayor who was once high in the sky will have to treat himself as a guest.

Just as Han San was rushing to the river with his troops, on the south bank of the Qingchuan River, Captain Wang's company, which had already crossed the river, began to urgently dig up fortifications, and the two heavy machine guns that came with them had also been properly arranged in the fortifications.

"This ground is even more frozen, and the fortifications are not easy to dig!" Lieutenant Pan stood in front of Captain Wang and sighed.

Captain Wang said: "This is also no way, it is not easy to dig and dig, but when deploying the fortifications, we can also make proper use of the fortifications and terrain left over from the previous army, anyway, we will not stay here for too long, at most it will be half a day's work, and after the main force of the battalion headquarters is brought over, we will continue to go west!" ”

Lieutenant Pan was about to continue speaking, but there was a sudden explosion outside, and then two more explosions sounded in succession, Lieutenant Pan is relatively young, and he has only been in the army for two or three years, and he still can't hear what the situation is based on the sound of artillery alone.

On the other hand, Captain Wang's face changed several times: "These are not easy to do, these are the 50-mm grenadiers and 70-mm mortars of the Japanese army." Looks like at least 100 people came! ”

The army's 50-millimeter grenadier and China's 60-millimeter mortar are weapons of the same level, although the 50-millimeter grenadier is much lighter, but the role of the two on the battlefield is actually about the same, of course, the actual use may be different. The army's 70-millimeter mortars generally do not appear in small units, and one or two are usually temporarily transferred to support subordinate infantry squadrons.

When the explosion sounded, the machine guns outside also rang out intermittently, and Captain Wang and Lieutenant Pan hurriedly stepped forward. Lieutenant Pan quickly rushed to the position hill of the third platoon and asked the deputy platoon commander sergeant next to him, "How is the situation?" ”

The sergeant said: "It should be that the fleeing army brought reinforcements to counterattack, and there are about 30 people in the army that attacked our side just now, but there are many troops on the other side, I am afraid that there are at least 100 people!" ”

Lieutenant Pan frowned: "So their main attack was put on the side of the platoon?" ”

The sergeant nodded, while Lieutenant Pan continued to frown, the position that his third platoon was responsible for was important, so the only two heavy machine guns in the company were also deployed here, so don't look at the strength of only one platoon, but in fact, the firepower on his side is the strongest, not to mention the enemy's attack with hundreds of people, even if a few hundred people come over, they can block it for a while. The first and second platoons were not reinforced by fire, and the heavy machine gun fire on their side could not directly support them.

Thinking of this situation, Lieutenant Pan was secretly anxious, but since he saw the problem, how could others not see it, and soon a herald came over and ordered one of the two heavy machine guns to be immediately transferred to support the platoon.

The crackling gunfire was accompanied by the sound of mortar explosions from time to time, and although there was no artillery from both sides to bombard each other, and there was no countless machine guns forming a network of firepower, the fierceness of the battle did not belong to the battle on the side of the Qingchuan River Bridge. In the absence of heavy firepower on both sides, the battle revolved around each other's machine guns and a handful of mortars, and rifles, which had become increasingly useful in large-scale battles, were once again the mainstay, with riflemen on both sides firing hundreds of meters apart.

This kind of shooting is even more terrifying than facing the shelling of heavy artillery, the army has always paid attention to the shooting skills of soldiers, and although China has always paid attention to machine gun tactics, it has not relaxed its shooting training for infantry, perhaps the overall level is still not as good as this soldier, but it is not much worse, everyone is fed with bullets to shoot at the level, no one is worse than others.

When bullets fly, no one is hit, and screams, groans, and gunfire echo across the land.