Devil's Army

The regiment commander and Commander Qin then discussed the items and details of the competition.

Military competitions are nothing more than shooting and fighting.

Division Commander Qin thought of a way to make his soldiers more aware of their shortcomings. He decided to randomly select soldiers from his division and the First Army to participate in the competition. The winning soldiers and teams would receive a reward of ten dollars.

On the day of the competition, the 1132nd Regiment, which was stationed farther away, did not come to participate, while the 1130th and 1131st Regiments represented the 195th Division.

The competition venue was set at the former base of the 195th Regiment of the 1130th Division (now the base of the st and nd Regiments of the First Anti-Japanese Army).

On this day, the 195th Division’s former superior, General Guan Linzheng, commander of the 52nd Army, also came to observe.

The 1130th Regiment first selected 10 soldiers to participate in the shooting competition.

Each participating soldier shoots three times, and the average of the rings is his score.

生停止后很快报把人报出了1130团10名士兵的平均成绩：7环，6环，8环……。平均成绩是7.4环。

When it was the turn of the soldiers from the First Army to participate in the competition, Commander Qin asked the commander of the First Regiment to arrange for the soldiers to participate.

The captain waved his hand and said:

"Our soldiers are all at about the same level of training. It's a rare honor for General Guan to come and watch today. So I'll ask you to randomly assign 10 soldiers to participate in the competition."

"Hey, Captain He, you are so arrogant. Aren't you afraid that I will pick some soldiers with poor marksmanship to participate in the competition?"

"Don't be afraid!" the captain responded calmly.

Commander Guan nodded with satisfaction. A commander should have confidence in his soldiers.

He randomly selected 10 soldiers from the First Army to participate in the competition.

After the gunfire stopped, hundreds of people started reporting their scores: 8.2, 9.4, 8.4... The average score was 8.9.

"You see, they are confident. I picked 10 people at random, and their performance was better than the 10 people you specially picked out." Commander Guan pointed at Commander Qin and said.

"Yes, yes, yes," Commander Qin responded repeatedly. The difference in the military quality of the soldiers of the two armies immediately emerged in this competition.

The next step was bayonet fighting. The commander of the 1131st Regiment selected 10 soldiers to participate.

The regiment commander was still calm and composed, and asked Commander Tan to pick 10 people to participate in the competition.

Commander Qin directly asked the ten soldiers closest to him to participate in the competition.

Ten groups of soldiers competed at the same time, but soon, ten soldiers from the 1131st Regiment were stabbed to death by ten soldiers from the st Army with wooden spears.

A soldier from the 1131st Regiment who was relatively strong was not convinced and asked for another round of competition. The regiment commander immediately agreed.

Unfortunately, he was soon knocked to the ground by a soldier from the First Army with a gun butt and was unable to get up.

"You need to strengthen your training in bayonet fighting. If they were really Japanese troops, ten of your soldiers would have been killed just now." Commander Guan instructed Division Commander Qin.

Next was the grenade throwing competition.

The 195th Division brought five soldiers to participate in the competition, and the longest distance they threw a grenade was 53.6 meters.

The First Army also sent five soldiers to participate in the competition, and the longest distance they threw a grenade was 62.3 meters.

The last event was a grenade throwing accuracy competition, where ten soldiers were required to throw grenades at a target 35 meters away, and the one with the closest average landing point to the target would win.

This time, the soldiers of the First Army competed first. Ten soldiers threw grenades one after another into a circle with a diameter of half a meter 35 meters away.

More than half of the 30 soldiers from the First Army threw their grenades into the circle, and the soldiers who did not throw their grenades into the circle had a deviation of less than centimeters.

The final calculated average score was 18 centimeters away from the target.

The results of the competition among the ten soldiers sent by the 1130th and 1131st Regiments were soon counted, with an average score of 62 centimeters.

The grenade impact point was more than half a meter away from the target.

All four games ended with the 195th Division losing, and the difference in military quality between the two armies was immediately apparent.

The officers and soldiers of the 1130th and 1131st Divisions stood dejectedly on the playground, waiting for their superiors to reprimand them.

In order to liven up the atmosphere, the group leader said to everyone:

"The result of today's match illustrates an old truth: the apprentice cannot beat the master."

The officers and soldiers of the 195th Division on the playground began to whisper. When did they become disciples of the First Anti-Japanese Army?

Commander Guan and Commander Qin had no idea what the regiment commander was up to.

"Don't be unconvinced, because our First Anti-Japanese Army has been fighting the devils since 1932, which is six years. You only fought the devils last year, which is only one year. When you have also fought the devils for six years, maybe your marksmanship and assassination skills will be better than ours."

On the playground, the officers and soldiers of the 195th Division changed their dejected look and started laughing.

Commander Qin asked the commanders of the 1130th and 1131st regiments to bring their troops back to the camp for intensified training. He and Commander Guan took the commanders of the first and second regiments of the First Army, as well as Captain Liu of the Special Operations Team, to the operations room to discuss the possible battles and countermeasures that might occur next.