The Flames of Resistance Against Japan in Jiangnan

Xu Wenqing led the Special Service Battalion as the first echelon to set off first. Yao Hutou and Hu Jiu led the 1st, 3rd, 4th Battalions and the machine gun battalion of the 55th Regiment as the second echelon to follow. Wang Tielin led the supply corps as the third echelon under the escort of the 2nd and 6th Battalions, and was responsible for leading the rearguard.

After arranging everything, Xu Wenqing immediately bid farewell to Yao Hutou and his men and went to the Special Service Company. By then, the Special Service Company was fully prepared. Each man was dressed in a captured Kuomintang uniform and was fully equipped with German weapons. Each man had a submachine gun, a bayonet, a dagger, and six grenades. In addition, the Special Service Company had also specially equipped itself with two newly captured high-powered radios and a considerable amount of medical first aid supplies, as requested by Xu Wenqing.

Among them, sixteen German-style sniper rifles with the simplest four-times magnifying glasses, which were already available at that time, were collected. Zhou Gang arranged for them to be given to the fifteen best marksmen in the Special Service Company. Zhou Gang specially left a sniper rifle for Xu Wenqing because he knew that nowadays, no one could probably surpass the regimental commander in marksmanship.

To outsiders, the special operations battalion now appears to be nothing more than an elite White Army unit. Who could imagine that in the near future, this special operations company would become one of the world's most formidable armed forces, officially stepping onto the historical stage and becoming the elite of the elite within the armed forces?

Seeing this situation, Xu Wenqing was quite satisfied with the preparations of the special operations company. After a brief exchange with Zhou Gang, he announced the transfer plan and then gave everyone ten minutes to prepare.

At 5:30 a.m. the next day, while the Shangrao area was still bustling with activity, Xu Wenqing led his newly reorganized, well-equipped, and highly motivated special operations battalion soldiers into the darkness east of Shangrao.

The headquarters of the 55th Regiment is also bustling with activity. It's already past six o'clock, and the troops are about to begin their transfer.

Starting at 6:00 AM, the main force of the 55th Regiment had already set off.

Because there were still more than 700 prisoners who had not been incorporated into the army, the marching arrangements of the 19th Division were quite complicated. Fortunately, Yao Hutou, Hu Jiu, and Wang Tielin were all skilled commanders, so even though many units were newly formed, they were still arranged in an orderly manner.

In the winter, dawn breaks particularly late in the Anhui, Zhejiang and Jiangxi regions. At seven o'clock in the morning, when it is barely light, the regimental headquarters and logistics support team also begin their official departure with the regimental headquarters.

Although the 55th Regiment did not get enough rest, the soldiers' morale was very high. Everyone walked along the rugged mountain road, chatting and laughing. Many soldiers who had just been assigned new weapons were stroking their shiny black steel guns as they walked.

Many of the soldiers who originally belonged to the 21st Red Army Division were newly promoted from Red Guards, and they had never seen such sophisticated German weapons before.

Now that they had not only seen it, but actually possessed it, how could these soldiers not become extremely excited?

Throughout the entire 55th Regiment, the dejected spirit of the troops who had been constantly moving and suffering losses in the previous period was swept away by the successive victories during this period.

Seeing this scene, Yao Hutou, the director of the political department, felt very proud.

The troops set off from Shangrao at 5:30 a.m. and have been marching continuously for more than six hours. It is now past 11 a.m.

Xu Wenqing instructed Zhou Gang to arrange for the troops to rest on the spot for two hours, after which the troops deployed both overt and covert sentries and police equipment.

Almost everyone collapsed to the ground as if paralyzed.

It turns out that their journey to hell began as soon as they set off from the special operations battalion.

Xu Wenqing didn't let everyone walk a single mountain path; instead, he led them through the mountain forests and cliffs where there were no roads.

Moreover, Xu Wenqing forced the team members to train while advancing with all sorts of strange demands.

Xu Wenqing's endless tricks make people both love and hate him.

The good thing is that once you learn these tricks, they are actually very practical.

What they hated most was that Xu Wenqing's methods were too torturous. They were all people with a foundation in martial arts and were considered elites in their former unit, but in Xu Wenqing's eyes, they were not even as good as children.

Forced by Xu Wenqing to perform all sorts of difficult and unimaginable tasks, these people, who were originally able to endure any hardship in the army, are now tortured to the point where they are like dead dogs, wishing they could die immediately.

Seeing the soldiers in this state, Xu Wenqing felt somewhat helpless. He knew, of course, that special forces elites couldn't be trained in a day or two. The special forces elites of later generations were all carefully selected and underwent years of training before finally becoming qualified members.

I've only used some of the most basic special operations training methods to train them, and they've already turned out like this. It seems that it will be a long and arduous task to truly make these people capable of special operations.

However, Xu Wenqing was secretly pleased that the vast majority of these soldiers showed special operations potential, even though he was unable to find a few people with enough potential among them because they were all adults.

However, it's certain that most of them will become elite special forces soldiers. And a small minority can become top-notch special forces fighters, the kings of soldiers in this era.

Starting from the early morning, Xu Wenqing began teaching these team members various wilderness survival and special operations skills.

He taught them step by step, starting with the most basic knowledge and skills. In this regard, the understanding and learning ability shown by these team members surprised Xu Wenqing.

As expected of those born in this chaotic era, everyone has an exceptionally high level of comprehension regarding these basic instructions for survival and combat.

After a morning of training, the vast majority of people have mastered basic special operations hand signals, basic mountain infiltration, ambush, assassination, climbing and retreat skills.

At the same time, they mastered various basic skills and techniques for mountain special operations, such as how to recognize wild fruits and medicinal herbs, how to distinguish between poisonous and non-poisonous plants and animals, how to determine directions and routes, and how to hunt and gather.

This allowed the team to quickly acquire the initial capability to form an army and fight.

Xu Wenqing thought that in this era, there are battlefields everywhere, so we can learn from war. This is the fastest way to train special forces to improve, and of course, the best training method.

Therefore, he hoped to teach these people common sense things in a relatively short period of time, and then let them continuously learn and improve in battle.

This gave him confidence that before the full-scale outbreak of the War of Resistance against Japan in 1937, he could train a group of special operations soldiers who were no less capable than the elite special operations soldiers of the Republic in the previous era.