With the order of the General Staff, Taiwan's armed forces immediately began to carry out second-level combat readiness. Level 2 readiness means that the situation has deteriorated and the threat of war has already begun. Leave of absence, recuperation, family visits, job transfers and discharges are stopped. control personnel to go out, make preparations to gather troops, and recall personnel who go out; distribute war readiness materials, and pay close attention to the implementation of logistics, equipment and other support; rush to repair weapons and equipment; Complete the emergency expansion of various preparations, and the border troops in important directions are fully equipped according to the wartime establishment; rush to repair fortifications and set up obstacles; Prepare for the evacuation of troops' personnel, weapons, and equipment; adjust and revise the combat plan; Intensify training for combat; Left-behind institutions carry out their work.

After such a series of actions, Taiwan's military began to become nervous, and they all began to face an atmosphere of war. However, the Taiwan government has taken the initiative to spend a large amount of money with public and private industrial enterprises to purchase materials, and even purchase a large amount of grain for military use. At the same time, the price of food in the market began to rise, because the army had begun to stock up on supplies needed for the war. After all, it was inevitable that grain prices would rise when the war began, and this was the inevitable law of value. However, the government immediately began to crack down on those who speculated on food to avoid further exacerbating the rise in food prices and affecting people's livelihoods.

"Zhang Laosan, you were originally a retired non-commissioned officer in Taiwan, and you made meritorious contributions during the anti-Japanese war. Now that you have changed jobs and come back to farming, and our Taiwan government hopes that you can return to the army, do you think you want to go back? The mobilizer in charge of the mobilization asked.

And the former retired non-commissioned officer Zhang Laosan immediately asked: "Are you going to fight?" ”

"This is a secret, I don't know, even if I do, I can't say!" Said the mobilizer.

Although this atmosphere of war is already obvious, only the high-level knows who will be fighting, and ordinary low-level officers and soldiers do not know who will fight in Taiwan next. So now everyone doesn't know who everyone is going to fight next. But war is very close to everyone.

"Okay, since Lord Wang has an order, I'll go back to the army!" Zhang Laosan said.

Zhang Laosan returned to the barracks, and then prepared to participate in the retraining training, which was regarded as the training of the resumption of the army. And when he came to the army, he found that many of those veteran non-commissioned officers like him had been recalled to the army in large numbers. Even a lot of ordinary troops will be recalled to the army. At present, it is only persuasion, but according to what he has learned, with the expansion of the army, a large number of experienced non-commissioned officers will be needed to return to serve. Many non-commissioned officers were even exceptionally promoted and promoted to platoon commanders, which can be regarded as regular officers.

This qiē is almost unthinkable, because it has been previously stipulated that non-war promotions must go through military schools. Of course, temporary promotions on the battlefield can be counted, but then you must study at a military academy before you can be officially appointed. But now it can be regarded as a "fire line promotion". It's the rule that you have to go through a military school. However, the superiors also claimed that as long as they settled down after a while, they had to go to the military academy if they wanted to stay in their positions. But when is it safe? This is enough to show that the war is probably coming, and it is obvious that many grassroots officers are not enough, and they are directly promoted from experienced non-commissioned officers.

In the barracks, Zhang Laosan was chatting with some retired non-commissioned officers, and they were obviously inseparable from the preparations for the start of the war.

"This time it seems to be for real. Originally, our army did not have such strict requirements for troops in daily life, and there was no rule that the gun should not be left on the body. But now it is clearly defined. You must keep your gun on your side, and when you sleep, you have to lie down in your clothes and wear military uniforms to prepare for battle. Even, normally there are only five bullets for each soldier, but now they are all fully loaded, and the bullets have been directly distributed to each soldier. Each soldier had 200 bullets, which was only possible when I fought the Japanese before! A non-commissioned officer said.

"Yes! This time, it's very strict, and it's definitely not a little looser than in the past, but it's really very strict. I heard from an old comrade-in-arms of mine in the logistics department that every day I see a large number of dog carts pulling goods from outside. It was all truckloads of food, as well as all kinds of weapons and ammunition. Now the logistics department spends money every day, a lot of money is spent on logistics, those factories where military uniforms are produced are producing every day, and those tailors are so busy that their feet don't touch the ground, and they have even been forced to faint by some owners. ”

Zhang Laosan immediately asked: "So tormenting people?" This time it looks like it's really going to war! I just don't know who I'm going to fight this time, is it going to attack the mainland? ”

"Attack the mainland, that's good! We have long wanted to attack the mainland, and when the time comes, we can fight to the city of Beijing, and then support the governor Wang as the emperor, and at that time we are all the founding heroes of the country. Someone said.

Zhang Laosan also said: "We are now in Taiwan, and these people who followed Governor Wang to fight the Japanese are not bad." And everyone is paid a very high salary, and their families are also guaranteed. And many of us now have also acquired land, and these have been obtained by Governor Wang. If it weren't for the step-by-step agricultural tax imposed by the governors of the kings, the leaders of those families would not have given us the land, and we worked desperately, but why did they treat us as their own family? To tell you the truth, I was the one from the Zhang family who was shot at that time, but they didn't treat us as a family, so we didn't treat them as a family when we got the land. Because of Governor Wang, we have land, so we naturally want to help Governor Wang fight the world. ”

The vast majority of these veteran non-commissioned officers are Taiwanese natives, so they all obtained land when the first batch of landlords divided the land, and many of them now have land with the help of Wang Guorui. So now, they naturally have to help Wang Guorui defeat the enemy, otherwise if Wang Guorui falls, those family leaders will also take back their land one after another. And as long as the mainland government does not fall for a day, then they are not completely reassured. After all, the mainland government supports those landlords, and they are now tantamount to dividing the land. Although they got all the land of their own family, those who got the land did not have any nostalgia for the so-called family, they just wanted to defeat the Manchu central government as much as possible, and then they could really rest assured.

"Yes, if we can conquer the mainland, then we are all the founding heroes of the country! But I don't know why, Lord Wang has no idea of hitting the mainland at all, so let's really worry about him! ”

"Lord Wang doesn't fight the mainland, that must have his thoughts, and we soldiers still don't think about anything about fighting the mainland. I've heard that this time it seems that we are not going to use troops against the mainland, but against the south! ”

Zhang Laosan immediately asked: "South, what is there to fight in the south, it's all an ocean!" ”

"Hey, don't tell me, there's something good in the south! Inevitably, there are a lot of copper mines on those big islands, and the bullets we use are all made of copper. There are even a lot of things, the land there is fertile, I heard that one acre of land can be used by the party for several acres of land here! Someone said.

"Really?" Zhang Laosan asked temptingly.

Now although the land has been divided, people are hungry and difficult to fill, and when there is no land, they want land, and when they have land, they want fertile land, more land. So Zhang Laosan heard that there was an acre of fertile land that could be used as a few acres of land, and he was also very excited.

"Not only that, but the land is not only fertile, but also rich in minerals, and even a lot of it! Where, it's all a bunch of natives, they're all a bunch of lazy guys. We Chinese farmed there, and many of them did not produce, but after we Chinese got rich, they came to rob us Chinese of things. They want good things, they never work hard to grow them themselves, they all want to rob us Chinese. You say, "Is such a person hateful?" This time we are going to avenge our Chinese and get those lands! ”

"Okay, fuck it, they're so hateful, then we don't need to be polite to them. Such good land is a waste of land for them, so we might as well plant it! Zhang Laosan said.

"Not only that, this time I heard that priority is given to those who have made meritorious contributions on the battlefield and killed many enemies. Those who have made meritorious contributions to the enemy may be given priority in enclosure. Anyone who kills the enemy and makes meritorious service can be given priority to the right to choose land, and when the time comes, those who have minerals and fertile will be selected by those who have made meritorious contributions, and everyone else will probably not be able to drink the soup. ”

"This time, we must kill a few more enemies, and finally there is a battle, so how can we miss it?" Zhang Laosan said.

And many soldiers said that in this war, they must make a good contribution to the war, strive for the right to choose the land, and must seize those who have minerals and the fertile land.

In the Governor's Palace, an official of the General Political Department reported in front of Zheng Hong: "Director Zheng, we have completed the propaganda, and the soldiers will be high at any time, and they are all holding back their strength to kill the enemy!" ”

"Alright, that's all for today. I'm still pregnant, and it's up to you to do the rest, so I won't worry much about it during this time. Zheng Hong said.

"Yes!" The general political officer replied. (To be continued......)