"Run! Run! Speed up... You've only run five kilometers and you're pretending to be grandsons? Is this how you call yourself elite? You're all a bunch of useless idiots..."
"I will fire anyone who dares to take off his military coat! You will need this cotton coat for almost ten months of the year during the Far East War. You even have to wear more clothes in winter. Now you must adapt to me, adapt! "
"Hold on to your rifle straps... This is the latest Mauser rifle. The cost price is 50 taels of silver! Not only that, the gun is the life of the soldier. Anyone who doesn't care about grabbing it can get out of here..."
The Hokkaido area was called Ezo in ancient times. It is a vast area with sparsely populated areas and high mountains and dense forests everywhere. It is really suitable for special forces operations.
Master Long never expected that there would be 1,200 wild samurai gathered at Hakodate. Adding to the 600 or so family samurai he had summoned before, the Far East Volunteer Army would have 1,800 Japanese soldiers alone. There are so many people.
This has far exceeded previous expectations. According to Xiao Letian's plan, the maximum number of Japanese samurai is just over a thousand. Together with the more than 400 veterans of the New Army currently lurking on the North Korean border, the skeleton of the Volunteer Army can be supported.
New Army veterans served as battalion, company and platoon-level officers, while Japanese soldiers served as squad and platoon-level officers. Finally, a large number of Far Eastern Han, Manchu, and Oroqen soldiers were absorbed, and the structure of the Far East Volunteer Army was formed.
Now the CIA has hundreds of intelligence officers lurking east of the Ussuri River, and nearly 80% of the villages have established contact. Although I dare not say that everyone will support the Volunteer Army, the common enemy of everyone is Lao Maozi, and all villages are at least Moral support is expressed, which is the foundation of people's support.
But now the number of Japanese samurai has almost doubled, which has changed the scale and structure of the entire volunteer army. The original funds have to be increased, and the supplies have to be redeployed. Even the ships in Hakodate Bay are not enough. , these supplies will take at least fifteen days to prepare.
But Master Long is going to disobey the order this time. If the number is overnumbered, then let him go. Now he is not willing to fire any soldier. These are all warriors who have sworn allegiance to the military flag and have traveled thousands of miles and worked hard to follow them. Soldiers, every one of them is a treasure.
The telegram was sent to Xiao Letian's desk a long time ago. Xiao Letian knew very well that the general would not accept his fate, and he would not discourage the general before setting off for the expedition, so he just said, "Full support, whatever you want!" '
Lord Long would not waste the time waiting for supplies and merchant ships. He began to train his troops crazily. He wanted these warriors to get into shape immediately. It was too late to conduct queue training. Guerrilla warfare in the White Mountains and Black Waters did not require grand positional warfare, so running, lurking, and shooting training became the most important items.
As for the necessary discipline development for the new army, it is not necessary for these Japanese samurai. There has not been a single violation of discipline in the training team of 1,800 people. The most important thing about the bushido spirit is obedience. This spirit has been completely imprinted on In the bloodline, there is no need to train at all.
"Move forward... move forward in formation... and return to the camp immediately after shooting three times... The two hundred people running at the back have no dinner to eat. Hurry up, speed is your life on the battlefield..."
There were more than 1,800 soldiers who were as tired as local dogs in the dense forest. They fired three shots at the target area and then turned around and started running back. It was too late and there was really no dinner.
At this time, the beginning of autumn has passed, and the climate in southern Japan is still warm. However, on Ezo Island, the sky is full of deciduous leaves, and there are red and yellow leaves everywhere.
The autumn wind was cold and the streams were icy cold. The cruel Master Long even deliberately drove them into the streams and rivers. The thick military coats were soaked in water and it was so heavy and cold. But no one dared to resist the opportunity that everyone had sacrificed their lives for. Not willing to throw it away.
Master Long was shocked. He had never seen such obedient soldiers. Although the Marine Corps soldiers were not weaker than them, one was trained and the other was born. There was no comparison at all.
Whenever someone fell behind or fell to the ground unable to walk, Mr. Long would gallop over and yell, "Remember every word I said, sweat more in peacetime and bleed less in war! Now every time you fall, Every drop of sweat will replace the blood you shed on the battlefield..."
"The desperate effort now is to survive in the future! Get up, get up immediately..." The leather whip shook out whip flowers in mid-air, and the crackling sound made the soldiers jump up like rabbits and run wildly.
Lord Long looked at the soldiers running around the mountains and said coldly, "Run. From today on, running is your destiny. There are 400,000 square kilometers of land east of the Wusuli River that you need to run. There are 600,000 square kilometers of land on the north bank of the Heilongjiang River that you need to run." Tens of thousands of square kilometers of land also need you to run wildly..."
"If you want to build a Far Eastern country, then start by running and see if you can create a future among the white mountains and black waters..."
Within fifteen days, other supplies and equipment were successively delivered to Hakodate City, and the soldiers' equipment seemed to be complete. A leather armed belt was tied outside the military coat, and the bullet magazines on it were half-circled around the waist one by one. There were neatly bundled quilts and sleeping bags on the back, and a kettle, engineer shovel, and tinplate lunch box were also hung on it.
A Mauser with a good bayonet was carried on his shoulder, a pair of high-quality leather boots for each person, and each person even received four pairs of thick woolen warm socks.
What is even more eye-catching are the distinctive flip-leather hats, which are made of different materials. The cheaper ones include dog skin and sheepskin. The better ones are made of wolf skin or even fox skin. When worn squarely on the head, the head looks particularly big.
The clothes looked strange, but not many people complained, because the temperature in Ezo had begun to drop rapidly in the past half month, and information came from the sea that snow had begun to fall in the Far East area opposite.
In such a cold climate, it is a blessing to have such warm equipment. As for whether it looks good or not, I don't care.
Fifteen days later, the army finally made all preparations. In the evening, the heavily armed soldiers at Hakodate Pier silently began to board the ships. Under the leadership of the most experienced old fishermen, twenty Kansai ships sailed toward the northwest in the wind and waves. The Far Eastern War of Independence, which shocked the world, finally kicked off.
There are always some things that are coincidental. Just when Long Ye's fleet began to set sail, there was also a fleet in Vladivostok that was also ready for battle. The flagship of the Russian Navy in the Far East, the Aleut, had been upgraded to full strength. After breaking the furnace pressure, under the guard of two light frigates, it sailed towards Qingdao on the sea.
"His Majesty the Tsar's warriors! There are actually more than a thousand Chinese people secretly mining gold on that small island off the coast. That is His Majesty the Tsar's gold. We must not let the pigs steal it..."
"Warriors, polish your bayonets. Tonight we will bloody Qingdao! Take back the gold that belongs to us..."
The three battleships were filled with joy: "Gold! Gold! Gold..."
