Chapter 1 The Reason Why Eating a Lot is Important

Wu Xing's regiment ate the same food as the Special Operations Brigade due to training together, which made the soldiers very happy.

Wu Xing also discovered another difference: the Special Operations Brigade had unlimited baozi (steamed buns), and the soldiers could eat as much as they wanted.

He allowed his soldiers to do the same, eating as much as they could.

Han Xi smiled and said to Battalion Commander Shi, "You fed the brothers well a few days ago during the battle, which is understandable. But we've already retreated to the rear for rest and recuperation, and you're still eating so well? Aren't you afraid of bankrupting the army with food?"

Battalion Commander Shi smiled and said, "Eat as much as you want. This is supplied by your Commander Yu. Whether it's during battle or peacetime, if the soldiers aren't fed well, how can they have the strength to train and fight?"

"Has today's training ended?" Han Xi asked.

"It's just beginning! We've only just arrived in Fogang and are completely unfamiliar with the surrounding terrain. We'll be heading out this morning to take a look.

Every team needs to familiarize themselves with all the mountains, rivers, major roads, minor paths, and villages within a ten-kilometer radius.

Eat more; today's road is still very long. There's a saying in our team: The ability to eat is combat power.

A soldier who eats little is definitely not a good soldier."

While speaking, Battalion Commander Shi proudly flexed his arm.

Battalion Commander Han looked at the bulging muscles on his arm, thicker than his own calf, and then looked at his own thin arm.

He silently took another baozi.

Battalion Commander Shi looked at him and said with a smile, "When bayonets clash, strength in your hands is key. No matter how hard the Japanese try, they can't match the miracle of great strength. Look at my soldiers; aren't they all burly and strong? Only soldiers like that have strength in their bodies and power in their hands.

When fighting the Japanese, they don't need to fear even when facing three enemies at once."

After saying that, he looked over Battalion Commander Han's troops as if inspecting livestock. "Let them eat well and train hard for half a month, and they'll have thirty percent of our strength."

Thinking about the thirty percent strength he mentioned, which meant they could fight the Japanese one-on-one, Battalion Commander Han didn't feel that Battalion Commander Shi was looking down on him at all.

Battalion Commander Shi said with a smile, "Our team was also trained slowly, but before training, the brigade commander required us to practice assassination and running every day.

Do you know what the benefit of running fast is, Brother Han?"

Battalion Commander Han really didn't know and guessed, "Good health!"

"That's one aspect! Our brigade commander said: Train running more often in peacetime, so that when the Japanese run away on the battlefield, we can catch up, and when we run, the Japanese can't catch up."

Hearing Battalion Commander Shi's reason, Battalion Commander Han and several of his soldiers who heard it all laughed.

Battalion Commander Han said with a smile, "Brigade Commander Lin is really telling the truth."

Battalion Commander Shi also said with a smile, "Our brigade commander has always been telling the truth. Like the battles fought a few days ago, our brigade commander said: We are fighting the Japanese, not seeking promotions or wealth.

Chairman Chiang has prejudice against us, only letting us fight the Japanese and not increasing our establishment. Even so, we still have to fight the Japanese.

Because we are not fighting the Japanese for him; we are fighting the Japanese for ourselves."

While the various companies under the Special Operations Brigade were familiarizing themselves with the terrain around Fogang, Lin Fan was not idle.

He was asking Commander Yu Hanmou for instructions: to build a wartime airport in Fogang.

The Special Operations Brigade had ammunition and supplies to be airlifted from Jurong.

Building an airport would require a lot of labor and money.

The issue of money wasn't a big problem for Lin Fan, but labor was indeed a problem in Fogang.

Because the Special Operations Brigade was only stationed here, local affairs were not under his control.

Yu Hanmou had witnessed the combat power of the Special Operations Brigade, and the entire Fourth War Zone had witnessed it.

Yu Hanmou was really in a difficult position regarding Lin Fan's request: he had already received instructions from Chiang Kai-shek to control the use of the Special Operations Brigade.

Control use: obviously meant not providing support for what the Special Operations Brigade wanted. If he really built an airport for the Special Operations Brigade,

Yu Hanmou was afraid of offending Chiang Kai-shek and having the blame for losing Guangzhou added to the account, and he became troubled when he thought of this.

Without the Special Operations Brigade in the Fourth War Zone, he was afraid that if the Japanese attacked, there would be no troops to charge ahead.

What to do? He couldn't give Lin Fan an answer on the spot, so he prevaricated, saying, "Building an airport is something that needs to be done jointly with the local government. I'll discuss it with Wu Cheng."

After hanging up the phone, Yu Hanmou immediately called his confidants to discuss and secretly asked his superiors about the matter.

The superiors replied that Fogang was too close to the front line and advised against building an airport.

If he replied to the Special Operations Brigade like this, Yu Hanmou was afraid of offending Lin Fan.

He frowned for three consecutive days. At this moment, an aide quietly suggested, "The Japanese-occupied Huidong has an existing airport. Commander, why not suggest that Lin Fan take down Huidong himself?

That way, President Chiang wouldn't be able to say anything. As long as the Special Operations Brigade occupies Huidong and doesn't leave, who can do anything about it?"

Good idea! Yu Hanmou immediately thought this was a good idea.

He picked up the phone,婉地 explained the meaning of the above, and provided Lin Fan with a piece of information: Huidong has an airport, and it is next to the sea. If there are any materials that need to be imported, they can also be landed there.

As soon as he said this, Lin Fan understood: He was being used as a knife.

He had no objection to this knife being used against the Japanese. However, Lin Fan pointed out that the current strength of the Special Operations Brigade was insufficient.

If they wanted to occupy Huidong for a long time, it was not enough to just occupy one place. They had to occupy the entire Huiyang, Danshui, Pingshan, Pinghu and other surrounding areas.

Because it was by the sea, they also needed a strong fortress team to prevent the Japanese navy from attacking. Therefore, the Special Operations Brigade needed to transfer troops from Jurong.

The Special Operations Brigade wanted to transfer troops from Jurong! Yu Hanmou was of course happy.

Now he couldn't wait for Lin Fan to transfer another 100,000 troops to drive the Japanese occupying Guangzhou away.

Even if they couldn't drive the Japanese out of Guangzhou, it would be a good thing to have such a powerful team as the Special Operations Brigade here to assist in the defense.

He immediately agreed: The Special Operations Brigade could transfer another ten regiments, 30,000 people, from Jurong.

Both sides happily accepted this proposal, but Yu Hanmou still had to ask his superiors for instructions. After all, Lin Fan's troops were coming from Jurong.

There were thousands of kilometers of roads from Jurong to Guangdong. The march all the way would cross the entire territory of Fujian Province, which was not easy for the Special Operations Brigade.

This journey would require support from the local areas along the way. Without Chiang Kai-shek's consent, it would not be easy for tens of thousands of troops to travel thousands of kilometers.

Chiang Kai-shek still supported Lin Fan's desire to transfer troops to fight the Japanese. After discussing with his aides, he finally approved the Special Operations Brigade's action.

With the approval, the Special Operations Brigade immediately began to formulate the marching route.

Lin Fan discussed with the Fourth War Zone and agreed that the ten new regiments of the Special Operations Brigade would first gather in Zengcheng, rest for half a month, and then begin operations.

Yu Hanmou was of course willing to do this: because Zengcheng was still in the hands of the Japanese at this time.

The Special Operations Brigade's proposal for the follow-up troops to rest in Zengcheng meant that they would no longer give up the territory after capturing Zengcheng this time.

This was not important. For Yu Hanmou, it was enough for his heroic figure to be photographed by reporters when he waved the flag in Conghua County.

In order to reassure Lin Fan, Yu Hanmou specifically asked someone to convey that the territory recovered by the Special Operations Brigade from the Japanese would be temporarily managed by the Special Operations Brigade.

For the Fourth War Zone, they were just afraid that the Special Operations Brigade would become inactive. As long as they continued to maintain pressure on the Japanese,

The Japanese 21st Army would not have the energy to expand its territory, which would greatly reduce the pressure on the Fourth War Zone.

Li Xian received the telegram sent back by Lin Fan in Jurong and knew that Lin Fan wanted to transfer ten regiments from Jurong to fight in Guangzhou.

From Li Xian's point of view, he didn't think this was a good thing.

Today, Jurong's development is booming, and both its economy and military have been changing rapidly.

Even on the front line in Tangshan, where they were in contact with the Japanese, the two sides were no longer as tense as they used to be. Something called peace seemed to be slowly arriving.

Lin Fan informed Li Xian in detail about the situation in Fujian and the coastal areas of Guangzhou that he had learned.

Now, the Japanese penetration in these coastal areas is particularly severe. Whether in the cities or the countryside, there are Japanese-organized autonomous associations and religious associations everywhere under various names.

The Japanese are also sparing no effort to support local bandits in causing chaos. The people in these places are living in dire straits, and now is the time for us to carry out our work.

Lin Fan's idea of ​​bringing ten regular regiments over was to establish a base on the coast that could directly connect to maritime trade.

On the other hand, he also wanted the team to uproot the Japanese and bandit forces in the coastal cities and villages and win over the hearts of the people.

Prepare for future changes in the situation.

The two finally unified their ideas on this matter, and Li Xian immediately began to take action.

First, he sent a mechanized infantry battalion to scout the road towards Fogang and prepare places for the main force to rest and stay along the way.

On the other hand, he needed to arrange the ten regiments to be transferred. After these ten regiments were transferred, Jurong had to replenish ten regiments.

Forgetting war is certain to bring danger! Although the current situation in Jurong is calm on the surface, undercurrents are surging underneath, and the actions of all forces have never stopped.

The Japanese have changed from their initial military suppression to secret co-option, and at the same time, they are sending people to lurk in secret.

The Kuomintang army is also constantly sending people to lobby, and many people from Western countries are also coming to win over Li Xian and persuade him to become independent.

Becoming a separate force, these people also cited the powerful figures in Guangxi, Yunnan, and Shanxi as examples, trying to make Li Xian a separate warlord leader.

These people also promised Li Xian that as long as he stood up and issued a notice to the world, they would respond and support him as soon as possible.

Li Xian had always been evasive about these suggestions. He knew very well that although Lin Fan was not in Jurong, his influence in Jurong had never decreased.

In all the teams in Jurong, the soldiers all said, "The brigade commander said!"

Even in the local government, every time they held a meeting, someone would propose that Brigade Commander Lin said that we should be people-oriented, people-oriented, and based on facts.

Lin Fan's influence in Jurong was too great, and even if Li Xian had any ideas, he couldn't do anything about it.

According to Lin Fan's requirements, the ten regiments that were transferred this time had to be fully mechanized teams, ten infantry regiments equipped with the latest weapons, and also equipped with a tank regiment and two flying squadrons.

It would take some time for such a team to come, and the most important task for the Special Operations Brigade was to recover Zengcheng.

Since they were going to recover Zengcheng, the main direction of the daily training of the various companies of the Special Operations Brigade was to familiarize themselves with the terrain around Zengcheng.

It was nearly two hundred li from Fogang to Zengcheng, which was obviously not a distance that the army could march in a day or two.

Conghua, in front of the current Fogang, was defended by the 186th Division of the Fourth War Zone, which was relatively a very safe rear area.

Lin Fan only left an infantry company in Fogang to guard his home, and secretly marched with the entire brigade to Shimen, eighty li away from Zengcheng.

The Special Operations Brigade temporarily stationed here, making a posture to prevent the Japanese from attacking.

Every day, the companies went to the direction of Zengcheng to scout, and the Wu Xing regiment, which ate, lived, and acted together with the Special Operations Brigade team every day, gradually became accustomed to such high-intensity marching and training after a few days.

They ate enough, ate well, had meat to eat every day, and had enough food.

In just a few days, the energy of these soldiers was replenished. After running dozens of miles every day, these soldiers did not lose weight or become tired.

On the contrary, they became more and more energetic, which made Wu Xing, the regimental commander, extremely happy.

Lin Fan brought the team to Shimen and did not hide it from Regimental Commander Wu Xing: The Special Operations Brigade wanted to attack Zengcheng and find a fixed garrison for the upcoming 30,000 troops.

If Wu Xing's regiment was willing, they could stay and continue to follow the Special Operations Brigade to attack Zengcheng. If they were unwilling, they could return to Conghua.

Because Conghua was where their old team was stationed.

Having the opportunity to actually fight was a good time to test how much Regimental Commander Wu Xing had learned these days, and Regimental Commander Wu Xing was unwilling to miss it.

He said that his regiment must follow the Special Operations Brigade to attack Zengcheng. Regimental Commander Wu Xing was not sure whether they would be able to capture Zengcheng.

Through these days of reconnaissance, combined with the reports of intelligence personnel lurking in Zengcheng, it can be roughly judged that the Japanese in Zengcheng are about an infantry regiment.

This news was not wrong. The Japanese 104th Division was severely damaged in Conghua and had been transferred back to Guangzhou for rest and replenishment these days.

After losing Conghua, Zengcheng became the front line facing the Fourth War Zone in this direction.

In order to strengthen the defense here, Commander Kojo Kanro of the Japanese 21st Army had dispatched the 124th Regiment of the 35th Brigade of the 18th Division under his command to Zengcheng.

For the Special Operations Brigade, Lin Fan believed that the Japanese might not know that his team was hiding in the mountains of Shimen.

During the entire War of Resistance Against Japan, countless heroic martyrs emerged, and many traitors also appeared.

The news that a large number of Kuomintang troops had appeared in Shimen quickly reached Miyazaki Taro, the commander of the 124th Infantry Regiment of the Japanese Army.

He immediately sent out Japanese reconnaissance teams, puppet army reconnaissance teams, and special agents disguised as merchants to scout in this direction.

At this time, the Japanese 21st Army had clearly learned that the team that almost annihilated the 104th Division in Xiangshan was the Special Operations Brigade that had just been transferred from the Wuhan battlefield by the Kuomintang army.

When Colonel Miyazaki Taro learned that the team deployed in Shimen was also the Special Operations Brigade, he was shocked.

A man's reputation is like the shadow of a tree!

Although he had not fought against the Special Operations Brigade before, his division had already fought against the Special Operations Brigade several times.

Colonel Miyazaki Taro also learned from the subsequent report of Division Commander Miyake Toshio that this team was known for its fierce firepower.

Since the Special Operations Brigade was known for its fierce firepower, he also had to strengthen this aspect.