The militia company in Lijia Village is becoming more and more like a regular army. The personnel configuration is 86 people, including 31 people in the first and second platoons and 24 people in the third platoon;
Each platoon is equipped with a crooked light machine gun with 300 rounds of ammunition;
1 grenade tube with 20 bombs;
25 Type 38 rifles, 4 Nanfang pistols, and one Nanfang pistol for the machine gun auxiliary shooter and grenade launcher;
Each platoon leader has a Southern pistol and a 38 cap;
Each person is equipped with 30 rounds of ammunition and 2 to 3 grenades;
Chuxiong's configuration for the militia company exceeded that of other main forces of the Eighth Route Army;
Now we are taking advantage of the slack season in winter to carry out winter training, and the training standards are gradually in line with the main force. In the future, there will be no problem for the militia companies in each village to fight against a small team of Japanese. With the addition of the 30-person military work team, dozens of Japanese will harm one enemy. Matters in the village are absolutely not allowed to occur in the base area!
Shenxianling Old Camp, the training here is another standard
The old battalion now looks more and more like a company of new recruits. The 500 recruits recruited in the base area a few months ago have been trained and all have been added to the garrison company. The number of soldiers in the garrison company exceeds 1,000. These are the second-line troops.
Once the front-line troops suffer heavy casualties, troops must be transferred from the garrison company to the main company to supplement them. Chu Xiong's requirement for them is to replenish them at any time and be able to fight at any time!
Therefore, the training standards of the garrison company are comparable to those of the main company, and even much higher than those of the main company. Their usual task is to train, train, train;
Otherwise, they kept digging tunnels, and the entire Shenxian Ridge was hollowed out by them. Yang Wei gave these tunnel fortifications a very vivid name - Ant Nest.
It's like a hornet's nest hidden underground. It has been dug for seven or eight months. It is more complete than the tunnel fortifications in Shangganling. On the surface, it doesn't seem like much. Once the fight starts, you will know what is going on!
The food stored in the underground warehouse of Kuai Lao Camp is enough to feed all the troops of the Independent Battalion for two or three years. If you have food at home, you will not feel hungry.
The more than 1,000 people in the garrison company are organized into platoons, each platoon is a standard platoon of 80 people, each platoon has 6 squads, and each squad has 13 people;
A total of more than a dozen platoons were organized to determine how many people the main company needed, and the principle of taking half and leaving half was adopted. The advantage of this is that there are always enough veterans in the garrison company, so that the old can lead the new.
He Zhenhua, the commander of the garrison company, usually has almost no chance to perform. He stays silently in the old camp to train qualified soldiers for Chu Xiong. There must be someone in a team who is an unsung hero, and this pairing of He Zhenhua and Yang Wei is it!
One focuses on military training and the other focuses on political education. Only in this way can we ensure that every supplementary soldier sent out from the old camp is a qualified soldier with both military and political excellence.
At 5 o'clock in the morning, when the sky was just turning white, the wake-up bugle sounded;
The old battalion woke up instantly and began to assemble in platoon units;
At 5:10, it is morning jog time. Each person carries a weight of 15 kilograms and comes out of the tunnel entrance below Shenxian Ridge. They run around the Shenxian Ridge, which is about ten kilometers of mountain road;
After finishing, it’s breakfast time, and everyone’s breakfast is fried noodles that they bring with them;
Military training is led by He Zhenhua, and Yang Wei guards the family. In any case, one of the two must stay in the old camp just in case;
After breakfast, it is time for tactical training. According to the training plan, you will be taken to the mountains for mountain guerrilla warfare training, jungle warfare training, mountain mobile warfare, positional warfare training, etc.;
All training subjects are completed in the mountains with Shenxian Ridge as the center and a radius of dozens of miles. Live-fire shooting training is organized every ten days;
Chu Xiong specially compiled a set of training materials for the garrison company. He Zhenhua only needed to practice one subject one by one according to the standards.
The training intensity of the garrison company has far exceeded that of the main company. What they lack is actual combat!
In the evening, there are three to four hours of night training. Sometimes they are pulled into the mountains and stay there for a week. They do not return to the old camp until the dry food they carry is used up.
Chu Xiong's plan is to train 5,000 cadres in the base area. Once conditions permit, with these 5,000 cadres, an army of 50,000 can be expanded at any time!
The training in the base area was in full swing, and Chu Xiong himself led the Tiger Special Forces to the Japanese territory to fight in lieu of training...
After it snowed, the Japs hid in their dens, and few were willing to come out unless they were looking for food, so it was not that easy to ambush the Japs.
This winter is colder than previous years, with ice and snow. Unless those who are so hungry that they can’t bear it and have to go out to look for food, everyone else is hiding at home.
Chu Xiong and the Tiger Special Forces were the ones who came out to look for food. He received an urgent message from "Shadow" two days ago. One day later, a train would be sent to the outside of the customs through the Huangcun stronghold, and there would be a large number of arrested laborers on it.
Once these workers are sent outside the customs, almost no one will live to see victory. It is a real journey to hell!
It's okay if he doesn't know. If he knows, he will definitely find a way to rescue them. If Chu Xiong's judgment of these workers was not wrong, they should be sent to 731 for in vivo experiments. He thought about it again and decided to go to the Huangzhuang stronghold Take action.
The geographical location of the Huangzhuang stronghold is very important. There is a small team of Japanese soldiers stationed there. The trains going north must pass through the Huangzhuang stronghold and then be sent all the way to the outside of the customs;
Huangzhuang stronghold is one of their supply points. The train leaves the customs after replenishing fuel and water.
Chuxiong set the time to take action at 1:30 in the morning. The train passed Huangzhuang stronghold at 2 in the morning, which was the best time to take action.
The Huangzhuang stronghold is similar to the small stations along the railway in later generations. There is a small gun building 50 meters away from the railway. There is a detachment of Japanese soldiers inside, equipped with a 92 heavy machine gun and a crooked light machine gun, and two shooting holes. It faces the railway at an angle of 120 degrees, just blocking the passage near the platform.
Two half-moon-shaped semi-enclosed fortifications were built with sandbags on the platform. Each fortification had a detachment of Japanese soldiers on duty. There was also a watchtower on the platform, which was where Second Lieutenant Kubota of the detachment worked and rested. There was also a detachment of Japanese soldiers. Japs patrolling.
There is no good way to capture the Huangzhuang stronghold other than a surprise attack. Not all the Japanese will lie down and let you kill them, and special operations are not a panacea.
It would take at least an hour to get to Huangzhuang from the Japanese stronghold closest to Huangzhuang. Chu Xiong was aiming for this time difference. He wanted to end the battle within 15 minutes, then clear the scene as quickly as possible and wait for the Japanese train to arrive.
The key to the raid is to get close to the station, which is a test for Chu Xiong and others...
