Wandering the Heavens

Chapter 315: Sword 18

The first stage of the selection is endurance. You have to run until you can’t run anymore. After half an hour, only half of the people are left.

To be honest, these people followed Yu Xian all the way to break through here, and each of them has good physical fitness. However, under the current logistical conditions and physical fitness conditions, Yu Xian had to strictly control the intensity of training. Insufficient nutrition and hematuria are considered minor, but in serious cases, it can lead to disability or even death!

Under the power of the simplified selection outline, most people were eliminated and finally six were left.

Despite the poor material and medical conditions of that era, they grew up healthily and possessed endurance, explosive power, physical coordination and IQ that exceeded those of their peers of that era, including the soldier who had previously said that he wanted to learn marksmanship from Yu Xian.

Compared with the previous deserted playground, Yu Xian taught the special forces team short blade combat, which is the most basic skill. Under realistic conditions, there are no helicopters to send fully armed special forces behind enemy lines, so they can only sneak in with bare hands and then get weapons.

In addition to physical training and tactical classes, there are also cultural classes, including but not limited to astronomy and geography, arithmetic and physics, folk customs, foreign languages, etc. As well as how to configure gunpowder, make weapons, lay traps, deploy troops, and so on.

Yamamoto Ikki's special forces were assassins at best. But the troops that Yu Xian wanted to train were not just assassins. In addition to destroying the enemy's command system, they also needed to perform combat missions on other enemy systems, such as destroying the enemy's artillery units.

Now is the worst time, because there is not enough stability for the team to have sufficient time to train and learn various tactical knowledge; it is also the best time, because they have the most actual combat opportunities.

During their missions, they grew from immaturity to maturity, from the most basic assassination to independently completing an intelligence transmission to planning and implementing an operation. Yu Xian even led them to disguise themselves as devils and openly enter a stronghold in the name of inspection to extort money.

When the special forces team was growing, the first battalion expanded from more than 60 people to more than 300 people, all of whom were local anti-Japanese armed forces that were organized and developed in the surrounding areas. While Yu Xian was feeling sorry for these social bulls under his command, he had to run a short-term professional officer training course in addition to presiding over the war and training.

As soon as the training class was over, Yu Xian immediately reorganized the first battalion into three companies. The first was the special forces company, which actually had only more than 80 people, most of whom were newly selected recruits. Yu Xian served as the company commander. Liu Xing was in charge of the second company, and Chen Yongping, the former captain of the Heyuan County Brigade, was in charge of the third company.

The reason why he said it was acting was that the appointment authority of the company commander lay with the independent regiment, and their consent was needed. As for the appointment authority of the platoon leader, Li Yunlong had given it to the commanders of each battalion at the last meeting, so Yu Xian fulfilled his promise that morning for the positions of platoon leader, squad leader, etc.

After the training class was disbanded, Liu Xing and Chen Yongping each took their own companies to the assigned bases. The base could not accommodate a large number of people, and due to the need for confidentiality of the special forces company, it was impossible to place the entire battalion here.

Yu Xian personally led people to inspect the camps of the second and third companies and determined them. Li Yunlong brought Ding Wei and Kong Jie to form an iron triangle, and he naturally had to form a small iron triangle. Through a series of early warning mechanisms, the three garrisons of the first battalion supported each other. If one of them had any disturbance, the other two would respond immediately.

After the deployment was completed, Yu Xian had more time to train the special forces. Based on the actual conditions, Yu Xian did not equip everyone with automatic weapons. So far, there are only eight submachine guns captured on the battlefield and obtained through various channels. The rest are all Type 38 rifles and modified sniper rifles and various close-range weapons.

Yu Xian could only draw some parts of automatic weapons on the blackboard to satisfy his curiosity while watching the soldiers training hard, so as to lay the foundation for his own later work. When conditions permit, he will produce all the 56mm and 40mm automatic weapons of the Type 107 series.

Liu Xing and Chen Yongping were busy all day, either watching the roads where the Japanese sent supplies, or taking the initiative to attack strongholds and passes. Of course, the second and third companies could not do this kind of good thing alone, so Yu Xian divided the special forces company into two parts to take turns to participate.

Not every battle goes smoothly, there will be soldiers sacrificed and injured. The entire battalion became stronger and stronger in this atmosphere of training while fighting, with more and more people and more territory. Yu Xian looked at the twenty platoon leaders on the officer roster and fell into deep thought. A battalion has three companies, and a company has three platoons, but how come he has twenty platoons under his command? Not even the special agent company...

When the 1st Battalion was reorganized, the policy of the Military Control Commission's waiter was officially implemented. In exchange for captured scarce goods such as canned salt and kerosene, the people in the defense zone were asked to help raise pigs and sheep. This ensured a stable supply of meat for the troops and guaranteed the physical training of the soldiers.

Everything is moving in a good direction, but Yu Xian's inner uneasiness is growing day by day. The situation should be getting better day by day, but why does he always feel uneasy?

Yoshio Shinozuka and Ikki Yamamoto stared at the brigade commander's 386th Brigade and the Independent Regiment, while the military police in Heyuan looked at the st Battalion of the Independent Regiment with gritted teeth but could do nothing. They could only lie down and let their space for movement be compressed bit by bit and their territory be eaten away bit by bit.

However, the highest military commander stationed in Heyuan, Ichiro Hirata, has been in a better mood recently. Firstly, it is because he is celebrating his birthday; secondly, Colonel Yamamoto Ikki, a popular figure of Commander Yoshio Shinozuka, has asked him to help with something, asking the secret service agency in Heyuan to contact an informant hidden inside the Eighth Route Army Independent Regiment; thirdly, several brigades of the First Army are going to carry out a cleanup operation against the 358th Regiment of the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army, which directly threatens the safety of the Heyuan garrison, and he is in charge of this operation.

Based on the above analysis, he thought it was a cause for celebration as he had solved two of his biggest worries at once when his birthday was approaching. To this end, he held a banquet at the largest restaurant in Heyuan County and invited all the officers, both big and small, from the gendarmerie headquarters and the security corps to have a meal together.

You really can't let a bunch of men get together for no reason. Originally, everyone was waiting to eat, drink and build relationships happily, but the behavior of two guys really spoiled the mood. They ignored the leader, Ichiro Hirata, who was still talking and singing a mournful song, and ate and drank as if no one was around. How ugly they were when they ate, and the noise was so loud that it alarmed Ichiro Hirata.

Needless to say, these two people are Li Yunlong and his guard Wei Dayong. Li Yunlong looked at the devils in front of him, suddenly remembered the business, pulled out his gun and introduced them with a smile.

"Everyone who is dissatisfied, I am Li Yunlong, the commander of the Eighth Route Army Independent Regiment you are looking for."

"What!" Ichiro Hirata didn't expect that the person that Commander Shinozuka wanted to catch would appear at his birthday party.

When the two Japanese officers who understood Chinese heard this, they wanted to draw their guns immediately, but Wei Dayong was quick-eyed and shot them dead directly.

"Don't move! Brother Yunfei, please show yourself!" Li Yunlong shouted to the full house of guests.

When enemies meet, they are extremely jealous of each other. This hatred cannot be directed only at the Independent Regiment. After two gunshots, Chu Yunfei and his adjutant stood up from another table. Then the four of them killed the Japanese officers, traitors and spies at the birthday party and then dispersed.

Li Yunlong and Wei Dayong left the county town and rode their horses to Zhaojiayu with the packed wine and food, while Yu Xian and a squad of special forces soldiers watched from the secret sentry post.

"Battalion Commander, the regiment commander passed through our defense zone. What about us?"

"We didn't see anything." Yu Xian shook his head helplessly.

They are both in their thirties (Li Yunlong is set to be born in 1910), and he has been promoted and demoted from the position of regiment leader several times, but he has never learned his lesson and always acts recklessly.

"Call back all the teams that are out on the field to the base and be ready for battle at any time!" Yu Xian still felt uneasy.

"Yes!"

The storm is brewing. Yu Xian feels that a war is about to break out, but he doesn't know where the detonation point will be.

Unlike Yu Xian who was worried, everyone in Zhaojiayu, from the regiment headquarters to the ordinary people, was very happy at this moment, except for one person.

Regiment leader Li Yunlong is getting married to Comrade Yang Xiuqin, president of the Zhaojiayugou Women's Association. Zhao Gang will be the witness and host the wedding. For this banquet, the kitchen even took out the canned food that they usually don't eat and made a pot of meat dishes.