War of Resistance: Glory of the Beasts

Chapter 133 One person, one time!
"Tong Meng!"

"How do you do this as a platoon leader?"

"I have two and a half shifts under my command, and you can't figure this out?"

"Where's the hemp rope you asked your class to make? Didn't you spend all morning making it? Tie everyone up for me, with a knot every five or six meters. I don't believe you can't figure out the evacuation formation!"

……

"Qu Yong!"

"Say he didn't say anything about you?"

"Look at the distance between the two squads of people under your command. One squad is like thin rice soup in a pot, with no one touching each other. The other squad is as dense as porridge cooked after becoming wealthy. They are all fucking crowded together!"

……

"Liu Gener!"

"What are you talking about?"

"What are you chatting about?"

"Do you know what training is? Ah!"

……

Early in the morning, Chang Zhan didn't rest for his injury. He put on his new military uniform, tilted his hat and got up with everyone else to train. On the training ground, he shouted even more fiercely than Xu Chaoyang.

It's strange, ever since Lao Chang let Gossip carry him out of the battlefield and survived after a lot of hardships, these people seem to respect him from the bottom of their hearts. No matter how he shouts, no one questions his authority, including the brothers brought up by Xu Chaoyang himself.

It's just that these Oroqen people are not smart enough. They can cope with the training of column formation, but once they start training the evacuation formation, especially when the squad leader shouts the command of "disperse", it's like the rope on the bracelet has broken. No one follows the requirements. You can't explain it to him, just like when Chang Zhan shouts: "Spacing! Spacing five or six meters, don't you understand?" He will turn around and ask you: "What is meter?"

They had never fought like this before. They were dragged off horses by force. Isn't this the result? In addition, these people were of low quality. Most of them were illiterate. If you told them inches, feet, and yards, they might have some impression. But meters? Maybe they thought it was the kind of rice in a sack that could be put into the pot.

Fortunately, Chang Zhan had a solid enough foundation and prestige, and had led troops before, so Xu Chaoyang dared to give him the most important basic training.

Then...what is Xu Chaoyang doing?

He brought all the platoon leaders and Lao Yang to explain the "trench" in detail.

The brothers swung their shovels on the grassland until they were covered in dirt. They finally dug a deep pit. Xu Chaoyang squatted beside the pit and used his hands and shovel to teach them step by step how to arrange the trenches and what the role of each position was...

"The place where the gravel and sand packs are arranged on the pit is called the 'breast wall'. This place is composed of wet soil and gravel, and its main function is to serve as a shelter;"

"Further down, we should have arranged a 'corrugated plate' outer wall that can buffer the airflow of the shells, but we definitely don't have that thing anymore, so we have to break the logs and rely on the curvature of the logs to form the corrugated plate outer wall. This will prevent the shells from falling into the trenches, reduce the forward airflow push, and intercept the scattered shrapnel and gravel."

"At the foot of the outer wall of the corrugated plate is the shooting platform. Remember, don't be lazy. There must be a shooting platform. This is not only to consider the height of the soldiers, but also to ensure the smooth flow of personnel in the trench at any time when the soldiers stand on the shooting platform."

"Also, with the shooting platform, it will be easier for us to dig deeper anti-gun pits after the height is increased... Also, no one is allowed to urinate or defecate in the anti-gun pits. Do you understand?"

Yang Jingyu listened carefully beside Xu Chaoyang. Halfway through, he took out a small piece of scratch paper and half a pencil from his arms and took notes while listening.

"The position behind the soldiers is called the back wall. The main purpose of the back wall is to prevent the shells from falling into the middle of the two trenches and exploding, and the shrapnel and gravel from killing the soldiers from behind. Generally, a 'bunker pit' can be left under the back wall. This position can also be used as a 'counter-charge foxhole' when the enemy's firepower is too strong and the impact is too strong.

"As I said before, you must not be lazy and never think of skipping any link. If you skip any link in the trenches, when the situation really happens, it will be useless even if you can sleep in the same bed with God."

"Remember this carefully. The trenches are the lifeline in positional warfare. If you want to live, you must work hard and build the trenches firmly. If you want to die, don't wait for the enemy to come. Find a place to fight yourself."

Next, Xu Chaoyang told several platoon leaders about the different types of trenches that should exist in different environments, such as Z-shaped trenches, S-shaped trenches, U-shaped trenches, etc.

He even used this trench to talk about foxholes, double foxholes...

Xu Chaoyang really wanted to teach everyone everything he knew during training and make sure everyone could understand.

"Remember?"

Several people nodded and stared blankly...

"I'm asking you guys if you remember this!"

"Remember this!!"

Even Lao Yang responded loudly under Xu Chaoyang's glare and roar, but Xu Chaoyang still cursed regardless: "You, you, and your men's lives are contained in this!"

"Wang Ba Zi!"

Xu Chaoyang stopped scolding them. He left a few platoon leaders and Lao Yang to go down to the trenches to experience the situation, and then looked at the wilderness in the distance. There are not only grasslands in Tongliao, but also wilderness. When Xu Chaoyang looked up at the soldiers who were training, he saw that a rope several dozen meters long was tied to the bodies of the Oroqen people one by one. The teams were training separately. After the squad leader shouted "Disperse!", the Oroqen people's desperate running force was strangled by the squad leader as if they were torn into pieces by five horses...

This is the only way to train soldiers in Chang Zhan, and soldiers trained in this way will remember firmly through muscle memory.

And constant warfare becomes even more brutal under this brutal form of military training.

He ran around the field with a whip in hand, and when he saw someone who was stupid or deliberately going against the squad leader or platoon leader, he would whip him, and under countless angry glares, he would yell, "What the hell!"

"I can't control you anymore?"

"Rebellion!"

The confusion of the Oroqen people was suppressed by using tough measures.

In response, Xu Chaoyang said nothing, Yang Jingyu said nothing, and Altai also said nothing.

This is what the old people often say, 'One way to tie up each monkey'. When facing the group of soldiers who have been educated by Yang Jingyu for a long time, Xu Chaoyang naturally would not use violence. You say something and they will do it immediately and they can understand it. Why would you hit them?

But for the Oroqen people who have only a limited understanding of the situation and don't know when a battle may break out, this is teaching them how to survive on the battlefield.

Don't you want to go to the battlefield?

Don’t you want to fight against Japan?
Don’t you want to seek justice for the Oroqen people and avenge old Baturu and the three Solon tribes?

At least you have to stay alive first!
At least you have to understand how to cooperate with your teammates, right?
"stop!"

At noon, Chang Zhan finally stopped the training, swinging his arms and shouting, "All troops, take it back, and have a lunch break."

After giving the last order, Chang Zhan walked towards Xu Chaoyang and said, "Chaoyang? What kind of work did you find for me? I just swung my arms all morning, and the wound I just stitched yesterday almost split open."

Xu Chaoyang had to comfort Chang Zhan: "It will be fine in the afternoon. There will be horseback archery training in the afternoon, and Altai will be in charge."

"Finally I can take a break."

Amid Chang Zhan's complaints, they led the team back. On the way back to Kailu, this group of Oroqen people were almost glared to death by Chang Zhan.

Chang Zhan, on the other hand, acted as if he couldn't see anything and just kept on talking nonsense and chatting.

When he returned to the barracks, he shouted in protest: "If you don't accept my request, you are welcome to retaliate anytime after my injury heals, by wrestling or fighting!"

He almost raised his chin to the sky, he looked so proud.

Hey!
But this group of Oroqen people just fell for it and no one said a word.

In the afternoon, after Altai pulled the horses out of Kailu, the advantages of the Oroqen people were finally fully brought into play. They rode their war horses in the wilderness and practiced various formations, cone formations, straight line formations... They practiced everything clearly on horseback. Except for some unfamiliarity with firearms in the live-fire training of mounted archery, you couldn't find any fault with their riding skills.

On the contrary, Yu Minghao, Qu Yong and others who participated in the training encountered many problems. It was not that they did not know how to ride horses, but when they were riding on horseback and holding the Type 38 rifle with a bayonet and performing actions such as "stabbing" and "slashing", they could not keep up with the rhythm of the Oroqen people.

Just like that, when it got dark, a group of Oroqen people blocked the door of Chang Zhan and his friends. One of the young men imitated Chang Zhan's tone and said, "Who doesn't accept it? If you don't accept it, wait until you recover from your injury. You are welcome to take revenge at any time, whether it's wrestling or fighting!"

This Oroqen boy added another sentence: "Nothing!"

Xu Chaoyang's mouth opened wide on the spot, he was so happy...

He likes this kind of atmosphere, and he likes these soldiers who have a spirit of not admitting defeat even more!
Chang Zhan held his breath and returned to the barracks without saying anything.

You have nothing to say, right? When you whipped him this morning, he didn't say anything back, right? That's not called committing an insubordinate act, it's called you do the first day of the month and he does the fifteenth day, one for each of you.

On a midsummer night, Tongliao had a wind that blew twice a year and once every six months, blowing away the soldiers' fatigue from the whole day in the barracks. The room was filled with snoring that kept rising and falling in the barracks. Xu Chaoyang was smoking a cigarette in the environment where the wind blew sand and kept hitting the glass of the barracks, and looked at all of them.

This time he had to remember the appearance of these people. Xu Chaoyang also planned to ask these people's names one by one tomorrow morning...

He was afraid that when the war came again, just like the last time, he would not even be able to tell who died. That would be an insult to this group of people.

"Captain, can Yue'er and I take a leave tomorrow and not participate in the training?"

After this voice appeared, Xu Chaoyang realized that there was a woman in his barracks!
He turned around to look at his second sister again. This woman had been so exhausted that she no longer looked like a woman at all. Her face was as tanned as the grown men, and there were tendon lines on her arms!
"What's the matter?"

"Ah, when we came back today, you men were outside with your bare chests taking showers with well water, so Yue'er and I hid there, and we happened to run into a military doctor. He said that a batch of supplies would arrive in two days, and asked if we were military nurses, hoping that we could go and help."

"I thought, this is a good thing. Yue'er and I can learn to recognize medicines and so on..."

"Go ahead." Xu Chaoyang agreed readily. What if his second sister and Yue'er learned something real? How many fewer people would die in this company in the future?
Xu Chaoyang closed his eyes. It seemed that everything was developing in a good direction, and he was gradually feeling at ease...

(End of this chapter)