Yang Zhen's live ammunition and actual combat training made the commander-in-chief of the Second Route Army and the rest of the Second Route Army and the rest of the Second Route Army who took the headquarters of the Second Route Army and the rest of the Third Division of the Fifth Army to rest and recuperate in the secret camp of Lao Heidingzi. The officers and men of the Second Route Army, who had to exchange their lives for almost every bullet, were shocked by Yang Zhen's training that in their eyes was simply a squandering of ammunition, and the image of a loser also remained in the hearts of the officers and soldiers of the Second Route Army.

They never thought that the explosives used to blow up the Japanese puppet military fortifications would be used by Yang Zhen to set up explosion points, so that the soldiers could experience the feeling of shelling. In order to keep the recruits from being frightened in the face of enemy fire, light and heavy machine guns were fanned over the heads of the prostrate soldiers, without regard for the saving of extraordinarily valuable ammunition, or even the possibility of accidental injury. They could clearly see that when the bullet swept past the creeping warrior, the trajectory was even less than fifteen centimeters above the warrior's head. That is, once a warrior gets up rashly, what awaits him can only be the fate of the hornet's nest.

And when the fighters hit the target, each person was actually issued a hundred rounds of ammunition. More than 1,000 people, each with 50 rounds of ammunition, was enough for a main division of the Second Route Army to fight a medium-sized battle in their eyes. Light and heavy machine gunners are limited to 200 rounds of ammunition per person. And that's not even counting the bullets that were fired from previous combat training.

More than 100,000 rounds of ammunition before and after, even in the heyday of the Second Route Army, no division had ever used so much ammunition in combat. You must know that if that army can capture 20,000 or 30,000 rounds of ammunition after a battle, it will already have to win in the eyes of commanders at all levels.

What made them feel even more was that the commander of the newly released independent regiment of the Second Route Army actually engaged in live-fire training when training mortars, and it was not a single shot. Looking at the mortar shells and various ammunition that were shot, the commander-in-chief who took the cadres and soldiers of the Second Route Army to observe their training said to Yang Zhen distressedly: "Commander Yang, is your training too exaggerated and expensive?" ”

"The bullets your troops have fired in the past few days are enough for the two main divisions of the Second Route Army or even one army to fight a large-scale battle. According to the previous battles consumed by the Second Route Army, these ammunition of yours are enough to wipe out hundreds of puppet armies. And these mortar shells, I helped you calculate, the mortar shells you shoot these days are at least about twenty rounds per gun on average. These dozen or so mortars have fired two or three hundred shells in the past few days alone. ”

"Do you know that if there is a mortar in that unit in the Third Route Army of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, it is the main force of the main force. But as far as the Second Route Army is concerned, the three formed armies and so many divisions and regimental units together cannot make up 20 mortar shells. If we have so many cannons and shells from you when attacking the group tribes, why should we pay such a big price? ”

"Commander Yang, I know that you robbed an arms train of the devil in Weihe County, seized a lot of ammunition and materials, and you have a lot of money on hand. But no matter how rich you are, you can't spend so much. We don't know what a terrible environment we will face in the future. If you run out of shells and don't replenish them, how can you fight? ”

Although Yang Zhen has now joined the Second Route Army, and has been awarded the official title of "The First Independent Regiment of the Second Route Army" by the commander-in-chief. But maybe because the contact time is not long, maybe Yang Zhen's department is an old subordinate who is not his own, and in the eyes of the commander-in-chief, it is more similar to the Eighth Army and the Ninth Army, which can be regarded as friendly troops rather than basic troops. Although the commander-in-chief was a little angry, his tone was still very polite.

Regarding the commander-in-chief's words, Yang Zhen said with a smile: "Commander-in-chief, you are a high-achieving student who graduated from Yunnan Jiangwutang, and once served as the deputy division commander of the major general of the national army, and you have fought guerrilla warfare in the northeast for so many years. On the theoretical basis, you are only above me. I think when the enemy is strong and we are weak, what kind of army is the most suitable force? You know best. ”

"For those warriors who have fought bloodily, winning a battle is not just about courage. As far as we are concerned, the gap between us and the Japanese army is not only in equipment. The various basic tactics and the individual soldier's individual elements were far from being comparable to the Japanese army. "The victory of a battle requires not only the wisdom of the commanders and the bravery of the soldiers, but also the cooperation of many aspects. We can now train for a while longer, and spend more ammunition on the training ground, so that the soldiers can pay less on the battlefield. ”

"A soldier in the Japanese army has at least 200 rounds of target ammunition a year, while our average soldier may consume less than 200 rounds of ammunition in a year. The gap on the training ground can only be compensated for on the battlefield by the blood of the soldiers. Commander-in-chief, the life of our warriors is not grass, it can grow if it is cut, and it will disappear forever if it is gone. ”

"You are the best military academy graduate in China, and you know much more about what an army needs more than us. In addition to qualified officers, the army also needs qualified squad leaders and veterans. And the more the fighters experience on the training ground, the better their chances of surviving on the battlefield. ”

"We have no rear, no stable soldiers, no replenishment. Not to mention fighting for others, we can't afford to fight just for soldiers. None of them can be compared with the Japanese army, so we need an army that has been trained into steel. ”|“ It is better for the soldiers to feel the atmosphere of the battlefield in advance, learn how to do tactical moves under the enemy's fire network, and how to survive under the enemy's fire network, than to drive them to the battlefield after a simple live-fire training. As long as it costs the fighters less for these ammunition, I think it's worth it. ”

"As for the mortar shells, Commander-in-Chief, you don't want them to fall on our heads when we go into battle, do you? If we don't train these mortars well, we will only be unlucky on the battlefield in the future. These artillerymen are all learned later, and if you don't let them train well, the shells fired on the battlefield don't know where to fly, so what's the use of them? ”

"My requirements for artillery are more than just that they can shoot shells. Accurate fire from individual guns, fire coverage of artillery groups, suppression of enemy fire, these are all things that they must master. ”

"We don't have the strength to fight with the Japanese army, but we have to form our own firepower characteristics. If there is an artillery unit on the battlefield that fires accurately, moves quickly, and hits wherever it is directed, we will pay a lot less unnecessary costs. ”

"I heard that although the equipment of the Dian Army in the Patriotic War was not as good as that of the Beiyang Army, neither the officers trained by the Yunnan Jiangwutang nor the soldiers brought out by these officers were inferior to those graduates of the Baoding Military Academy. I have always thought that the officers who came out of the Yunnan Jiangwutang even surpassed those officers trained in the crash courses in the previous periods of Huangpu in Suzhì. ”

After listening to Yang Zhen's explanation, the commander-in-chief shook his head and said, "It's not that I don't know what you said. But in the case of such a shortage of ammunition, is it not a bit of a loss to use live ammunition training in such a big way? ”

"The devils are now wantonly collecting guns and ammunition scattered by the people, and we have no other means of supply except for the enemy's combat capture. And the outcome of the battle often backfires as we thought, and in many cases the captured ammunition does not even compensate for the consumption in the battle. Li Yanping and I once talked about it, and the main reason for the failure of their western expedition was even the failed supply. ”

"After the ammunition was exhausted, the troops who ran out of ammunition and food could not exert their combat effectiveness in the face of the Japanese puppet army, and dozens of soldiers were captured and killed because they were armed and without ammunition. I don't want this tragedy to happen again in your troops. ”

Regarding the commander-in-chief's bitter words, Yang Zhen smiled and did not refute again. He knew that this was also the commander-in-chief's concern for his own extravagance.

Now that the hostile situation is becoming more and more severe, the situation of the Anti-Japanese Union is becoming more and more difficult, and the supply is becoming more and more scarce. If you consume too much ammunition during training, once you encounter the Japanese puppet army, there is no ammunition available, or there is a shortage of ammunition, and the tragedy of the Fourth Army's westward expedition will be replicated in yourself. This is something that no one wants to see.

It's just that in Yang Zhen's view, the commander-in-chief's current worries are at least somewhat superfluous for now. In his own Weihe county town and subsequent operations, a large number of materials were captured. Among them, in addition to more than 2,000 sets of winter clothes, the most is ammunition.

It was a fully loaded munitions train with nearly twenty wagons, a capacity not comparable to that of dozens of horse-drawn carriages. Among them, nearly 10 million rounds of Type 38 rifle ammunition alone were captured, and all of them were new ammunition made by the Mukden Arsenal. There were also millions of rounds of heavy machine gun shells of the seven-seven caliber. Mortar shells were a little less, but there were more than 3,000 rounds. There is also a part of explosives.

This does not include all other types of firearms and weapons that have been seized. It is with this capital that Yang Zhen dares to be so generous. If he only had tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition on hand, Yang Zhen would never dare to do this.

Seeing that Yang Zhen smiled and said nothing after listening to his words, the commander-in-chief sighed and didn't say much. Distress is distress, but what is meant by moderation, the commander-in-chief still understands. Judging from Li Yanping's description of this person, this person is definitely not the kind of person who Meng Lang is. He still has his ideas for doing this.

Yang Zhen set a deadline of one week for actual combat and live-fire training for the troops. Fortunately, God was also very face-saving during the week, and it didn't snow again. After all the officers and men cleaned up, a training ground was finally built in the thick snow. However, Yang Zhen did not have any Lang fees for the snow that was cleared, and all of it was piled up on the periphery of the main fortifications, and all of it was poured with water, forming a thick layer of ice, forming a communication trench and chest wall made of ice and snow.

Yang Zhen's live-ammunition training made the old black-topped pheasant flying dog jump, and the few remaining beasts that had migrated because of their unexpected arrival were even more frightened by the rumbling sound all day long. Since the start of the live-fire training, the wild wolves that used to howl around the livestock shed all night are gone, and the night sentries do not have to worry about being attacked by wild wolves while keeping guard.

However, there are many benefits and benefits, but it brings an unexpected annoyance. In the past, the specially formed hunting team did not have to travel too far to get enough wild boars, yellow sheep and even various roe deer and deer to improve the food for everyone. Now you can only go far to get meat, and the amount is much less.

Fortunately, when the weather cooled down and some meat could be stocked up, Yang Zhen ordered people to hunt a lot of wild boars, yellow sheep and deer and other large wild animals in order not to delay training, and got a lot of pheasants and hares under the trap, and froze in the snow after cleaning up. He also had the remaining cows killed, so that the troops did not cut off meat for a while, and ensured the basic nutritional needs of the troops under the large amount of training.

Perhaps the Japanese puppet army outside the mountain had some feelings in their hearts, and on the second day after Yang Zhen's live ammunition and actual combat training ended, a Japanese reconnaissance plane once again appeared over Laoheidazi Mountain. This time, the same as last time, the devil's reconnaissance plane was almost attached to the top of the mountain, and every ravine had to be carefully reconnoitred before withdrawing.

Looking at the Japanese reconnaissance plane hovering in the sky, flying at a low altitude and even raising a telescope, you can roughly see the appearance of the Japanese pilot. Yang Zhen turned his head to Guo Bingxun beside him and said, "It seems that this Sasaki to the first is very cautious." ”

"In addition to the planes dispatched a few days ago to conduct close reconnaissance of this mountainous area, they actually sent planes to reconnoiter this area. However, judging from the current actions of the Japanese army, the Japanese army on the Dunhua side should have already launched an operation. ”

"Commander, no, what the regiment commander said is not wrong, the devil's move should be to start clearing the mountainous areas north of Dunhua. Now that the devil has sent a reconnaissance plane, it shows that Sasaki is still thinking about his next move after the purge fails. Obviously, the reconnaissance planes sent by the devils this time are not just here to reconnoitre, and I feel as if they are still looking at the terrain. ”

Speaking of this, Guo Bingxun pointed to the reconnaissance plane in the sky and said: "Commander, you see, these two devils' planes are not only hovering over the top of the mountain and the place that may become our hiding place, but even when they encounter a ravine, they have even taken the risk of lowering their already low flight altitude and flying back and forth in the ravine. The devil did this, not only to carry out reconnaissance missions, but I think it should also mean to see the terrain. ”

"If it weren't for the fact that after you completed all the training subjects yesterday, you organized the troops to cover up our traces as much as possible, and God helped you to make it snowing all night last night, and the devil plane would have really exposed our secret camp."

After listening to Guo Bingxun's words, Yang Zhen patted his hand and said, "Okay, let's not talk about this for now." Has the order that the devil's planes are not allowed to light fires until they leave, and that the troops are all hidden in their respective wooden flutes and are not allowed to enter and leave at will? ”

"It's been passed on. As soon as I received the report from the air defense post, I immediately conveyed the order in accordance with the original plan. With the experience of the last time, the troops also have some experience, and they are all hidden. Moreover, after nearly three months of training, the troops have long been looking forward to resting for a few days. Hearing this order, I saw that the soldiers were a little happy. ”

"It's just that in this icy and snowy weather, more than 40 degrees below zero, even if it is hidden in the wooden flute, this is not a long time to make a fire and exercise, and the temperature is cold enough. At the end of this day, I am afraid that the troops will also be frozen enough. ”

"Stick with it, it's survival training. In the case of thin clothes and no food in the stomach, the anti-Japanese federation can march and fight in this ice and snow, we are warm, the food is sufficient, and there are wooden flutes to keep out the cold, and we should be able to persevere. This is not the time to feel sorry for the fighters. This year we are lucky, next year that? Sooner or later, this kind of test will come. ”

Yang Zhen's words made Guo Bingxun nod. However, Guo Bingxun was silent for a while and decided to divert the topic: "Commander, when I was making a plan in the past few days, I suddenly had an idea. You see, since we have decided to fight south, should we let Li Mingrui and them not rush back. Hold on to the territory of Dunhua on the spot, and seize the time to reconnoiter the movements of the Japanese puppet army. ”

"We are fighting in the south, and we can't do it without reliable intelligence support. Li Mingrui: Since they are already in our predetermined war zone, they should not be withdrawn. Tossing back and forth, on the contrary, will cause them to be more tired. ”

Hearing Guo Bingxun's construction, Yang Zhen pondered for a moment and said, "What did Li Mingrui say? How are their supplies now, and are there any large-scale frostbite. Also, they have been out alone for so long, what is the situation with the troops? ”