In the end, the people of Jinxi County who came to see off or watched donated more than 60,000 oceans of property on the spot!

This is definitely a huge sum of money for a mountainous county. When Tang Dao reported this amount, many new recruits in the field began to think about how much they could divide, even if it was just one or two oceans. Most of the peasant children from the mountain village were very satisfied.

But as the receptionist, Tang Dao refused the money and donated his military pay for the next three years to fill it up on the spot, requesting the county magistrate to set up a military assistance foundation.

Anyone from Jinxi County, whether they are participating in the 22nd Army, the 23rd Army, or other troops, as long as they join the army and go out to Sichuan to fight against Japan, their families can apply for living allowances when encountering difficulties in life.

If there is a person who died in battle, his parents, wife and children, regardless of poverty or wealth, can receive a monthly rated living allowance from the foundation according to the number of immediate relatives.

In order to ensure that the fund has sufficient funds to pay, the fund will be operated by the Tangjia and Jinxi County Chamber of Commerce to ensure that the fund has no entry. The county government will supervise the operation, expenditure and other conditions.

As soon as the idea that was considered novel in this era came out, the initial restless recruits suddenly calmed down.

This is much better than they had imagined to have a few pieces of ocean before. It basically completely solved their worries. Even if they really can never return to their hometown, parents, wife and children can have food to eat, and they will never have no place to live.

The County Magistrate Song, who was moved by Tang Dao's passionate speech, was completely conquered by Tang Dao. Seeing that Tang Dao trusted him so much and handed over such a big thing to him for operation, he even sweared to the new recruits and the public on the wooden platform on the spot.

"Song entered the officialdom as a minor official and experienced the sinister hearts of the officialdom. In more than 20 years, he became the chief of a county. The ups and downs of the officialdom have long forgotten his dreams when he was young. Fortunately, the soldiers and civilians in the audience are generous and uplifting today, which makes Song have the ability to find his past thoughts!

Now the Chief Tang of the Four Army Corps has given me a heavy trust. Although Song has a humble official position, he also promised the whole county's fellow villagers: Japanese pirates will never be destroyed, and Song will not leave Jinxi one day, and he will do his best to help our Jinxi family members! If you violate this oath, Song will be killed by himself!" County Magistrate Song, wearing a long robe, stood on the stage, with blue veins rising on his forehead, pointing to the sky with three fingers.

"The war of resistance will win!"

"Our Sichuan Army will win!"

"My son will win!"

In such a slogan of tsunami, Tang Dao sat back on the war horse and took Lu Sanjiang and others to leave with his head held high.

Tang Dao promised the recruits to give them half an hour to say goodbye to their relatives. The rural road three miles away is the place where the entire recruits' queue gathers again.

From here, the group of new recruits will go with him to a market town thirty miles away, where hundreds of carts and 2,000 pack horses have gathered. The largest "baggage team" in the history of Jinxi County will span 2,500 miles of thousands of mountains and arrive in southeastern Jin.

The slogans are loud, but the crying is also loud!

Grandma holds her son, wife holds her husband, and son holds her father, and she is hard to part with!

Half an hour, a short time is like a few seconds!

The drums and drums suddenly came to Xuantian, and the lion dancer shook his head hard, and the time for separation finally came.

The recruits wiped away the tears on their faces, spread their arms that were reluctant to leave their relatives, found the squad leader who raised their own flags, and lined up to the five people and five horses standing in the distance.

In less than two months of training for the recruits, many of them may not be able to hit the wooden target fifty meters away, but the veterans told them countless times that military orders are like mountains, and those who do not respect military orders will be killed!

That word is definitely not a false name. On the battlefield, the guns of the supervision team and the law enforcement team are as hot as the guns!

At least there is a pension to die on the front line. If you die here, it would be so unfair.

So, although these soldiers who should be called farmers are relatively new, after nearly ten minutes of gathering, only about 200 people were still standing outside the queue. It was not because they were late, but because they didn't find their own squad in a panic, so they could only run over in a mess.

Tang Dao did not implement military laws on the spot, but ordered all soldiers who were not included in the queue to form a different team, and with a wave of his hand, the army set out on the road.

After arriving in the market town to collect all kinds of materials that need to be transported, the Tang regiment has ordered that all the troops must march on foot, including himself.

This is nothing. In this era when there are fewer cars and horses, hiking is as common as drinking water and eating for people in the mountains.

Two-thirds of the recruits did not fire guns. The old sleeves used in the previous training were left for the next batch of recruits to train. Only the 1,500 people trained by Tang Jili had Hanyang rifles, but each of them distributed 20 bullets, plus the kettle, not-so-enriched grain bags, quilts, etc., the individual soldiers were carrying only about 10 kilograms.

In such a light and heavy burden state, not to mention walking for one month, as long as you ensure enough food and drink, it will not be a big problem even for three months.

But obviously, they were thinking too much.

It would be so easy to send hundreds of thousands of kilograms of food to the front line.

The weapons purchased by Tang Dao from Shancheng were transported by special trucks, about 20 trucks and 20 pack horses. Tang Dao handed them over to the 75 veteran instructors who led the team.

Each person asked for guns and grenades to stay away, and was the only armed guard in the army of thousands.

But the remaining nearly 600,000 kilograms of fine rice, white flour, soybeans, etc. all depend on the recruits.

According to the number of carriages and pack horses, Tang Dao asked an infantry squad to be responsible for a large carriage and 7 pack horses.

4,500 new recruits, except for the 75 veteran instructors who were asked to arm the escort of the military ordnance and more than 180 soldiers who had not had time to return, there were a total of 280 infantry squads. The military order issued by the Tang regiment required that after each new recruit squad arrived at the destination, the weight of various grains transported by the various types of food shall not be less than 2,000 kilograms!

That means that if a large truck loads 1,200 kilograms, the seven pack horses will have to be equipped with more than 100 kilograms of supplies each to barely be enough.

That's fine. The big trucks are reinforced with hard wood. A car with 2 pack horses. If it's just tow, it's okay to carry more than 1,000 kilograms. In addition, 15 people and 7 horses, the transportation volume of 2,000 kilograms can definitely be guaranteed.

But from Jinxi to the front line of the Second War Zone, it takes at least 2,000 miles. It takes at least 60 miles per day to march marches, and at least 30 days. All the people and horses have gone to transport supplies. In the past 30 days, what are the big guys and 9 horses eating and drinking?

The military order of the Tang Tuanzhao also made it clear that unless it was attacked or caused by extreme bad weather, those who had failed the weight of the transportation materials would be dealt with by military law!

Moreover, the Tang regiment also set an example. He, the highest commander, brought a service soldier, three second lieutenants, a total of five. He did not have to be responsible for the carts and pack horses, but he also had a transportation requirement of 700 kilograms of food, which was similar to the recruits on average.

The fierce war horses under the five-person seat actually became temporary pack horses, including all weapons and equipment, and each war horse was carrying a weight of 150 kilograms.

In order to ensure the food consumption of five horses and five people on the road, Tang Dao, Mingxin, Longyan, Lu Sanjiang, Xia Dayu and five others, in addition to pistols, all used the chopped hard tree trunks to make shoulder poles on site and carried them on grain bags.

Xia Dayu is the youngest and has not yet grown up. There are 40 kilograms of food on both ends of a shoulder pole!

Mingxin looked thin, but the food bags at both ends of the shoulder pole looked shocking. Even a fierce man like Long Yan grinned.

The weight was 100 kilograms. When I thought of carrying so many supplies to cross mountains and rivers for a month, I guess my mind would be buzzing if I was an individual.

But obviously, they didn't see the Tang Tuanzu, the weight of the Tang Tuanzu's load was nearly 150 kilograms at an abnormal level.

After estimates, Lu Sanjiang and Longyan also carried 70 kilograms and 80 kilograms of grain respectively. The five people carried a total of 440 kilograms of grain, with an average of 44 kilograms per person per horse. If they could arrive in 30 days, it would be enough to support the consumption of people.

With the leader taking the lead, the new recruits in the infantry squad also came back to the point. The leader means that except for the food to be transported, the rest of the food he can bring is his own food for about 30 days!

If you can bring more, eat more. If you bring less, you can only barely get rid of your mouth!

Sichuan people have always been hardworking, but what they want in their life is to eat and then set up a dragon gate formation in a circle!

So, the recruits followed suit and cut down the wood in the mountains as shoulder poles. Those with great strength picked up more points, while those with thin bones picked up less points. On average, the grain carried by a single person was about 40 kilograms.

But, this is enough for people to eat, and there is still a horse?

Whether it is a truck or a single pack horse, it is the main force in transportation and the key to ensuring the transportation of 2,000 kilograms of food. It is better to be hungry than to ensure the horse's physical strength.

Soybeans are actually the first choice for these new recruits from the infantry squad who came from farming families. Many infantry squads carry up to 400 kilograms of soybeans, far exceeding the rice that Sichuan people love the most.

Moreover, whenever you go to a campsite, you will see horse wranglers all over the mountains and fields. The recruits who have reached the critical point of physical fatigue will never forget to replenish fresh forage to these partners.

Maintaining the physical strength and health of the pack horse is undoubtedly the greatest guarantee of transportation capacity. In this regard, the recruits have shown unprecedented excellence.

But their shortcomings are equally huge.

The physical fitness is so poor that it is hard to see directly!

First of all, the Sichuan people are short and thin, not as big as the northern man like Lu Sanjiang. As the saying goes, it is said that the body is strong and the strength is not lost. If the shortness is short, it will naturally be smaller. Secondly, the material resources are not developed in this era, and nutrition is difficult to guarantee, and strength is far inferior to the future. Secondly, after just experiencing a decade of war within Sichuan Province, opium in Sichuan Province can be almost used as currency, and even if you don’t forget to bring a cigarette gun, you can imagine the physical condition.

On the first day, we only marched for 50 miles in total, but most of the recruits collapsed on the ground as soon as they arrived at the camp and didn't even want to eat.

More than 180 "cookers" had to bring all the prepared white rice and broth, and then they barely finished eating, and then fell asleep.

This is what it means in Sichuan Province. If you arrive at the war zone, just like this, it is estimated that a Japanese infantry squadron will be able to defeat this "packet team" with more than 4,000 troops. Xia Dayu even thought that it was too much.

Let me talk about it here that the more than 180 soldiers who were not too late to return to the team served as cooks, and the two were responsible for the meals of the three infantry squads. Tang Dao dealt with their military law.

Each person has to carry iron pots, oil, salt and other cooking equipment, materials, and the weight is as high as more than 40 kilograms. What's more, others can rest after arriving at the campsite, and they have to bury the pot to make rice.

Perhaps the only benefit is that no one can cook, he can become a chef in more than a month.

Otherwise, the hungry men of dozens of people would curse each other, but few people would have such strong psychological qualities.

Of course, meat, eggs and other dishes are not carried by soldiers and cooks themselves. They are transported by special carriages. If you pass through the town, the Tang Dao will also buy some fresh vegetables. Moreover, local people often beat gongs and drums along the way to deliver some ingredients for the labor force.

In addition to basically surviving rice and noodles that need to be carried by the soldiers themselves, dishes such as meat and eggs are provided by the army.

This is actually the second training class that Tang Gang gave to the recruits, physical training.

The large amount of weight-bearing and long-distance marching have squeezed out the recruits' physical strength that was not sufficient, but they also ensured sufficient nutrition and did not lose the young body.

Three days ago, the marching was 50 miles a day, and finally waited for the recruits to adapt to this load and distance. As a result, on the 4th day, the Tang regiment commanded that the marching was 60 miles a day, and it was less than the specified distance. Even if it was dark, it was not allowed to camp.

By the 8th day, the marching distance was as high as 70 miles, and the marching time on the road was nearly 2 hours longer than before.

The new recruits are almost in the same condition as on the first day every day. As soon as they arrive at the campsite, they become exhausted after laying their quilts. They snore like thunder after dinner. They wait until six in the morning to sleep and repeat the story of the previous day.

This pain of squeezing physical energy to the extreme has caused the recruits to have many complaints in private, but no one dares to say it in person.

It was really their highest commander, just like them, that everyone could see Tang Tuanzuo carrying his two large pieces of grain bags every day, marching on the mountain roads like them, and handling various military affairs.

If you want to be hard, Tang Tuanzhang, as the supreme commander, has worked much harder than them.

Not that no one has ever doubted whether the two big grain bags seem to be real. While resting on the march, the infantry squad leader who sat with the Tang squadron tried it in a close way.

Then, there are really not many people who can really carry the load of more than a hundred kilograms and walk dozens of meters.

The Tang Tuanzuo can walk dozens of miles.

There are commanders who practice this kind of practice, and they didn't treat them badly on the way. Each person had three meals a day, and dinner included meat, eggs and fresh vegetables. Even if the military order was a little more harsh, who could say what?

"I understand. The regiment commander is like a thug. These slap recruits are the scrap metal. Use this to gradually turn them into stainless steel!" Long Yan finally looked like he suddenly realized his mind on the fifth day.

Lu Sanjiang rolled his eyes. Isn’t this obvious when the military order was issued? Do you still need your child to give a special mouth?

Yes, although these Sichuan recruits have been trained, the so-called "elite soldiers" specially prepared for their son have been trained for half a year, but in Tang Dao's opinion, they are still too bad.

Even new recruits trained by training standards like the Four Lines Regiment have only a 50% chance of becoming veterans, which means that the mortality rate of new recruits in their first three battles is nearly 50%.

That is a fact that Tang Dao cannot change!
To be continued...