"Get up and get up and bring your equipment to the training ground within five minutes. Get me up and get me up."

"Bring all the equipment, what about the helmet... Where is your helmet? You'll lose all your money, hurry up and get it!"

At four o'clock in the morning on July 2, the direct regiment blew a harsh emergency gathering whistle for the first time. As soon as Dongfang showed white fish belly, more than 60 military and legal officers with live ammunition came to the barracks, holding up their trumpets, and urging the sleeping direct regiment officers and soldiers to get up.

"Captain Chen, what's going on?"

Everything came too suddenly. Even as soon as he got up, he was about to go to the Military Commission teaching team 12 kilometers away with his brothers. Qiu Chengyan, the company commander of the Third Company of Qiu Ying, who was undergoing training, was caught off guard.

"Didn't you hear the whistle? An emergency gathering," Chen Changfu put down his trumpet and added, "Bathman Commander Qiu, don't have to go to the teaching team today. Be optimistic about your soldiers and be on standby at any time."

"yes!"

Just after counting his subordinates, Qiu Chengyan suddenly discovered that A Biao's "corpse collection team" not only did not make breakfast for the entire battalion's officers and soldiers as usual, but also used a truck to bring boxes of bullets from the arsenal under the command of the logistics director Chen Shangwen, and it was about to be distributed. Even the Japanese consultants who only appeared on the training ground on weekdays were dispatched, one by one, with live ammunition, and stood aside with a stern face.

At the same time, Qiu Chengsong, Yang Zhongyi, Lin Shanhu, Xie Wenbin and Chen Changlu who received the order ten minutes early had arrived at the team headquarters, waiting for the young master Chen who was answering the phone next door to give the order.

The battalion commander Qiu Chengsong was obviously also kept in the dark. As soon as he came, he couldn't wait to ask: "Deputy Commander Wang and Staff Zhang, are there really tasks or exercises?"

"It has both a mission and an exercise," the old master looked back and returned to the previous map.

"What mission?"

The old master did not answer his question directly, but asked without looking back: "What day is today?"

“No. 2.”

"What about five days later?"

Yang Zhongyi blurted out and said, "No. 7."

"It should be July 7th!" The old master turned around and looked around everyone while saying extremely seriously: "It is the second anniversary of the July 7th Incident."

Lin Shanhu was puzzled and asked with a puzzled look: "What does this have to do with us?"

“It’s a big deal!”

The old master looked upright, "On the anniversary of the July 7th Incident last year and the August 13th Anniversary of the War of Resistance Against Japan, two comprehensive 'big riots' occurred in Shanghai. From the public concession, the French concession to the Japanese occupied areas, it extended along roads and waterways to suburban counties and towns. Almost at the same time, intercepting and ambushing Japanese troops and traitors, attacking Japanese institutions and Japanese enterprises, shooting and throwing grenades at Japanese military camps, attacking Japanese warships and other violent incidents were fierce and powerful. Although the Japanese and concessions mobilized all military and police forces, including the Belarusian Volunteers of the 10,000 business group to prevent riots, they still failed to control the situation."

Nanyang is 108,000 miles away from Shanghai. Qiu Chengsong knew nothing about this. Looking at the map on the wall, he couldn't help but ask, "Who did it?"

"Military Command!"

Zhang Xiaoguo took over the conversation and pointed to the map and introduced: "They were surprised and had a huge momentum. According to the information provided by the Japanese side, they mobilized no less than 3,000 people, and they divided into six routes and nearly twenty teams to attack Gordon Road, Maigen Road Japanese Spinning Factory, Robertson Road Japanese Spinning Factory, Caojiadu Japanese Spinning Factory, North Railway Station, Sikkim Office, Renji Road, Haining Road, Arabess Road, Waibaidu Bridge, Water Hotel, Dongkang Road and Zhengjin Bank.

Among them, the first brigade of the "Suzhou-Zhejiang Action Committee" directly under the jurisdiction of the first brigade, Lu Junqing's troops attacked the heavily guarded Hongqiao Airport, fought fiercely from morning to noon, and blew up two bridges on the Qinghu Highway. The second squadron of the headquarters also attacked the Toyota Shingle Factory, Gaochang Temple Shipyard, Longhua Machinery Factory, Fan Wangdu, Caojiadu, Xujiahui and the No. 20 Bridge of the Shanghai-Hangzhou Highway, causing huge casualties and property losses to the Japanese army."

Looking at the offensive routes marked on the map, Qiu Chengsong suddenly realized, "So if they riot again this year, we are likely to be targets?"

"Yes."

The old master was worried. While signaling everyone to sit down, he said solemnly: "What Staff Zhang introduced was the anniversary of the July 7 Incident. The equally huge August 13th riot followed closely, blasting and shooting Japanese military and police and institutions, and the scope of operations was mostly in Hongkou and Yangpu controlled by the Japanese army. The lessons of the previous cars were placed there, so we could not be careless."

While talking, Master Chen answered the phone and walked in.

"Brothers, Deputy Commander Wang and Staff Zhang have already introduced the situation. There have been two major riots in a row, let alone us, even the Japanese are still scared. Fortunately, we don't have to worry about the things outside, and we don't need to do those thankless things. Both sides are not human affairs, but our own safety cannot tolerate any carelessness."

Master Chen paused and continued: "For us, we are optimistic about our own doors and manage our own people. Therefore, we will cancel our vacation and no one will be allowed to leave the camp. From now on, we will enter a state of combat readiness and strengthen the defense of the camp in accordance with the plan formulated by General Staff Zhang. General Staff Zhang, please issue an order."

"yes!"

Zhang Xiaoguo immediately walked to the wall and pointed at the map with a small wooden stick. "Now the order was officially issued, Qiuying 1st Company and the 2nd Company were responsible for the defense on both sides of the Daying Gate, and the 3rd Company was stationed at the Daying Gate; Xieying 1st Company and the 2nd Company were responsible for the defense on the eastern front, and the 3rd Company was stationed at the Xiaoying Gate; Yangying and Linying were responsible for the western and northern fronts respectively, and Chenying was the general reserve team.

Given that the terrain is not good for me, each battalion must build three field fortifications with a depth of no less than 120 meters on the front dark side of the barbed wire, ditches and shooting range. The depth of the trench, degree of solidity, firepower point, connection direction, and ammunition storage location must be implemented in accordance with wartime regulations, and the regiment will personally accept it.

At the same time, in order to avoid unnecessary casualties caused by possible artillery attacks, from today to August 13, all officers and soldiers of our headquarters will be exposed to the trenches, and the required materials and supplies and supplies teams will be distributed later. Considering that the combat readiness time is long and whether there is a great uncertainty in whether to attack, Chen Ying, as the general reserve team, will conduct offensive and defensive drills with each battalion under the command of the advisory team..."

The thought was carefully considered, combat defense, live-fire confrontation drills, logistics supply, and battlefield first aid were all planned. Even the search team of the regiment who had just set up the shelves had to draw personnel from each battalion to reconnaise the turbulence within a radius of five kilometers.

With the order from Master Chen, 1,821 officers and soldiers suddenly became busy.

It takes about twenty minutes to walk from the camp to the north side of the shooting range. It is carrying a gun, bullet, shovel, and mattress. It also takes seven days to carry rations, which makes the veterans who have been accustomed to the comfortable life before complain.

"The equipment is too heavy, and it's not really a war. Is it necessary to mobilize the troops so hard?"

"Who said no," another veteran carrying machine guns agreed deeply. "If you can't live in a good barracks, you have to dig trenches."

Lieutenant Kobayashi was very angry, ran up and kicked him hard, roaring in a stiff Chinese: "Waste, a bunch of waste! Compared to the Great Japanese Imperial Army, you don't even have enough standard equipment."

After scolding, he immediately turned around and said, "Anto Sao..."

"arrive!"

"Say this bunch of waste."

"Hi!"

After a while, Ando ran back fully armed from the warehouse.

"See it all for me!"

Kobayashi held up a samurai sword and signaled Ando to untie the equipment one by one, while shouting as she knew it: "Type 99 rucksack, military blanket, carrying tent, round shovel, lunch box, raincoat, rifle, three-zero bayonet, and four grenades... Ando-kun, what's going on with these two bricks?"

"Reported to the deputy team leader, there was no food for Class A in three days, so three bricks were used instead."

The subordinates did not embarrass themselves. Kobayashi was extremely satisfied. He pointed to the three bricks and continued to yell: "This is the warrior of the Great Japanese Empire. Even if he didn't have it, he would not cut corners!"

I have to admit that the Japanese guy who is not tall and has a very strong body is almost twice the weight of his equipment. In addition to the ones he showed before, there are also 100 live ammunition, a set of rifle ammunition boxes, a set of tools, canned food, salt, dried fish, dried plums, steel helmets, gas masks, kettles, military shoes, socks and even shirts and pants. I really don’t know where he got it.

As the battalion commander, Lin Shanhu was very embarrassed and glanced at them with a grudge, "Do you know why you can't beat them now? Do you know why a division or even an army is chased by a brigade? He still complains about carrying this thing. I think consultant Kobayashi is right, you are just a bunch of waste!"

After getting Lin Shanhu's recognition, Xiaolin became even more excited. As soon as she walked to the north side of the shooting range, she personally selected a representative open space, and used the ruins in the distance as an imaginary enemy, and ordered Andeng and others to demonstrate how to build a single-soldier bunker in front of the officers and soldiers of the Lin camp.

"Spend my eyes wide!"

As soon as Lin Shanhu finished speaking, Andeng took off the Type 98 infantry shovel from his backpack, assembled the shovel head and the wooden handle together, first lifted out a square meter of ground, then inserted the shovel into shallow soil, jumped up all over his body, and stomped the shovel with the force of falling down the shovel. The shovel body was completely buried in the soil, turned sideways, pressed the shovel handle backwards, and used force to push the hands, feet and waist at the same time, and the left foot thrust hard, and the whole shovel soil was thrown to the designated position. The movements were coherent, accurate and clean.

In a blink of an eye, more than one meter deep had been dug out. Then, I put down the shovel and used a steel helmet to tidy up the bunker into a small mouth and a large belly.

Consultant Kobayashi was amazingly dedicated and walked to the pit and explained: "Single-soldier bunker excavation is a basic skill that all soldiers must master. Physical strength is one aspect, and more importantly, skills. I hope you learn more from Andeng Cao."

Then, he pointed to another pit and commented: "Although Hasegawa's bunker meets the standards, it is unqualified if it is in wartime. First of all, I didn't choose a good place because the soil here is soft and easily destroyed by enemy artillery fire. When it is bombed, dust will spread, affecting the field of vision. Secondly, the digging soil is piled up in front regularly, which can easily give the enemy a target indication. Okay, you can start digging, until the end of the station can reveal your neck."
Chapter completed!