Chapter 83: Forced March
Just as the guard squad was speeding with the dean and the nurses under the moonlight, the independent regiment's headquarters and the brigade headquarters also began to take action.
The boss was afraid that Li Yunlong of the independent regiment would get into trouble, so he gave a strict order, ordering him not to move. Otherwise, this guy would definitely lead the entire regiment to Babao Cave.
The order given to Zhao Gang was to lead all the students in the school to the Babaodong Machinery Factory to resist the counterattack of the Japanese army.
If necessary, he would give up everything, even if he had to fight to the last man, in order to get back Chen Xiao, who represented the country's industrial foundation.
Zhao Gang took the order and quickly gathered all the students and stood in front of them.
"I hereby order all trainees to abandon everything except the necessary weapons, ammunition and two days' rations and march 120 km.
This is not training, this is combat! Get ready! We'll be leaving in ten minutes."
It was a long forced march with nothing but guns, necessary magazines, two grenades and rations. It was much easier than the usual fully armed 10km cross-country training, except that the distance was a bit far this time.
As soon as the monk received the news, he was approved by Zhao Gang and took the team members he selected to lead the way.
The horses that the two communicators rode were originally snatched from the Japanese by Chen Xiao. They were very precious, but now the monk snatched them from the communicators and hung a disassembled heavy machine gun and a mortar on them. Horses can carry things much faster than people can carry them.
In addition, his team members are all top scouts selected from the best, so they are faster than ordinary people.
It hasn't been long yet, but I've already walked nearly 20 kilometers.
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At the brigade headquarters, when the brigade commander received the news from the headquarters, the communicator from Babao Cave also arrived.
Without saying a word, he called the guard squad, then a telegraph operator, and set off with a radio on his back.
The brigade is still quite wealthy, with at least a dozen horses.
Originally, the communicator from Babao Cave came here to ask for help from the brigade's doctor. However, after hearing that the doctors and nurses from the headquarters hospital had already left, he felt relieved and followed the brigade commander back.
"When you set out, were there any Japanese troops marching in your direction?"
As the brigade commander hurried on, he asked the communicator coming out of the Babaodong Arsenal: "Did you do anything to defend yourself?
If we don't take any precautions, your principal Chen may not be able to wait for us."
The correspondent replied that they had already made preparations for defense: "We usually do defense drills, and every time we do a drill, the teacher will remind us of our shortcomings.
Therefore, even though we only have more than a hundred workers there now, our firepower and proficiency in drills can enable us to withstand the attacks of two enemy regiments.
Because we have the advantage of geographical location, even if the maze of Babao Cave has no defenses, we will still get lost if we go in, and there is a high probability that we will starve to death inside.
The teacher said that many people starved to death there in ancient times, so in such an environment, our 100 people can replace two or three thousand people.
The prerequisite is that there must be sufficient ammunition, which is not a problem because we have an arsenal right next to us, and each person has a Czech light machine gun and a new submachine gun.
In a cave battle, the teacher said that using that machine gun is much better than using a Czech light machine gun! "
The workers at the Babaodong Arsenal prefer to call Chen Xiao "teacher". When everyone first starts to use the machines, Chen Xiao teaches them step by step. Technician Feng Lin teaches too slowly.
In the subsequent process, every time Chen Xiao came to inspect, he could see any slight shortcomings of the workers and correct them with gentle words.
Now the workers are becoming more and more skilled, producing more and more guns, and there is never a shortage of materials that Chen Xiao prepares for them.
Countless people failed while practicing drilling gun barrels, but precisely because of so many failures, now the more than 100 workers at the Babaodong Arsenal can basically be regarded as skilled workers in their own workstations.
Don't underestimate a skilled worker. All skilled workers are the foundation of all fitters, welders, electricians, lathe operators, and grinders.
Each workstation has its own skills, and they have already taken the initial step in the skills of their own workstations.
So they are now among the excellent technical workers.
All of this was taught to them by Chen Xiao, so Chen Xiao is the master of all of them and the teacher of all the workers.
From the moment they met Chen Xiao, they already knew all of Chen Xiao's deeds.
In the days after arriving, Chen Xiao was seen leading the soldiers to rob the Japanese again and again.
That's the devil!
Not a small group of bandits.
The predecessors used blood and tears to tell the younger generations that in order to destroy the Japanese, they had to fight with their lives and use blood and tears to practice the means of killing.
However, Chen Xiao's repeated success in robbing the Japanese made them realize that the Japanese also had two arms and two feet, so there was nothing to be afraid of. They would still die if hit by bullets.
So in the eyes of everyone in the Babaodong Arsenal, Chen Xiao is everyone's spiritual pillar. Now that he has suddenly collapsed, this is unacceptable in the eyes of everyone in the arsenal.
Only then did they rush to send out communications squads in three groups to ask for support and doctors.
If the teacher had not been unconscious and dared not move, he dared say that there must be someone in the arsenal who wanted to carry the teacher on his back and rush straight to the headquarters hospital.
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Zhao Gang's troops set out, about four to five hundred people, a battalion of troops. In this complex situation with the enemy and ourselves involved, a battalion is already a very large target.
Therefore, Zhao Gang asked them to play to their strengths and advance towards the goal in a dispersed and hidden manner during the day and march quickly on the main road at night.
Anyway, we must reach the Babaodong Arsenal, 120 kilometers away .
In fact, the one who was the most tired and suffered the most was Zhao Gang. He was a scholar, and although he was very good at shooting, the intensity of his training was not even half of that of the soldiers.
So after this 120-kilometer, two-day forced march, I was afraid that I would collapse from exhaustion on the road.
But he had to go. Although he guessed that the higher-ups would definitely send another person, the other party definitely could not stay there permanently.
As for himself, the headquarters instructed that if Chen Xiao was unconscious for too long, he would have to support the entire Babaodong Arsenal, now called Babaodong Machinery Factory.
If the Japanese army invades, nothing can be done, and he will also be responsible for transferring Chen Xiao out.
So he has to go!
"Vice Principal, how about you just follow along at the back while I lead the other comrades to go ahead?" Liu Qiang asked.
Zhao Gang shook his head: "No, I can keep up!"
It's only a few dozen kilometers, it's not the most tiring time yet...
The people from the headquarters were still faster after all. If it weren't for Tian Xiaoyu holding them back, they would have been even faster.
It took me a whole day to run these 100 kilometers.
"Who? Password!"
"The king of heaven and the tiger of earth!"
"Chicken stewed with mushrooms. OK, the password is correct. Come in!"
In fact, there were only about a hundred people, and everyone knew each other, but Chen Xiao had taught them before that rules were the most important at all times!
That’s why this happened!
"Xiaoyong, you're back. Did you bring the doctor?"
The correspondent named Xiaoyong was one of the two correspondents. He replied happily: "They brought it . The doctors and nurses from the headquarters also brought surgical instruments and medicines."
When the people inside heard this, they rushed out and said, "Hurry! Our teacher hasn't woken up yet. Go and see where he's hurt."
