November 26, 1937, Morning:

The Japanese artillery relentlessly bombarded the Xiaoshan Battery at the Jiangyin Fortress.

The Special Operations Detachment was busy with training. Although Lin Fan had gone to Battery A to assist with the artillery fire, the team's training had to proceed as usual.

The Japanese bombing was particularly intense this morning, with massive explosions echoing constantly.

The soldiers were continually reminded that the Japanese bombardment was ongoing.

However, this bombing had little impact on the Special Operations Detachment's daily training.

In any case, according to Lin Fan's arrangement, they engaged in physical training and aiming practice whenever they had time.

As Lin Fan put it: "Sweat more in peacetime, bleed less in battle."

The physical training for the entire Special Operations Detachment varied depending on the individual and the location.

If outside conditions permitted, the entire team would go mountain running.

In situations like today, the entire team would do push-ups, sit-ups, and frog jumps inside the trenches. In short, Lin Fan had plenty of ways to exhaust the soldiers' energy on the spot.

Even so, the outside bombing did cause some of the Special Operations Detachment's training to be suspended.

Especially the driver training for the three cars that Lin Fan had assigned to each squad.

The Japanese bombing in the morning forced these drivers to hide in the trenches, sitting in the driver's seats.

They practiced shifting gears, stepping on the gas, and stepping on the brakes over and over again.

They couldn't actually practice driving. If it weren't for this bombing, these twenty-one cars should have been driving around outside.

The Special Operations Detachment's training had always been: if you can actually practice, then actually practice.

In this era, Lin Fan was not afraid of accidents.

In Lin Fan's view: training without accidents must not be serious training.

People stumble even when walking on flat ground, and bite their tongues even when eating. How could there be no accidents in military training?

As a result, the Japanese came to cause trouble for the soldiers of the Special Operations Detachment, forcing the fortress to use one cannon to fight against a Japanese field heavy artillery brigade.

And miraculously suppressed the Japanese artillery fire.

Three trainees and one instructor per car. Even when practicing in place, these trainees were very serious.

Kang Youjie was from the organization. He was originally sent to strengthen the construction of the Special Operations Company.

Chen Sichuan also selected him when choosing drivers this time.

The reason, of course, was not because he was from the organization.

The real reason was actually very simple: Kang Youjie was very clever and quick in his actions.

The current Special Operations Company didn't yet have the concept of taking care of anyone.

It was purely because Chen Sichuan felt that Xiao Kang would be able to learn quickly.

Although Kang Youjie was a veteran guerrilla fighter, he was not yet nineteen years old.

He was only twelve years old when he joined the guerrillas.

Being able to learn to drive.

This made Kang Youjie extremely happy: If he learned the skill of driving, he could find a job driving for city people when the war was over and the Japanese were driven out and a new country was built.

This was much better than going home to farm.

And he had also heard Deputy Captain Li say: In foreign countries, they now use machines to cultivate the land. If he could drive a car to cultivate the land, he could cultivate the family's fields in one day!

Almost all of the trainees had the same thoughts as Kang Youjie.

In this era, if you wanted to learn to drive, you had to be an apprentice to a master, doing free labor for at least three years before they would start teaching you the real skills.

Therefore, even when sitting in the driver's seat, simulating practice, none of these trainees felt bored, they were all very excited.

Even those who didn't get a turn to enter the driver's seat were practicing turning the steering wheel and stepping on the gas pedal while sitting on the ground.

These trainees were all people who seemed very clever in their respective squads.

And they were making relatively fast progress in learning to read.

When it was their turn to get into the driver's seat, these trainees would learn to drive with the instructor.

When the training time was up, after getting off, they had to make up for the physical training courses.

According to Lin Fan's words: Everyone in the Special Operations Detachment is first and foremost a soldier.

First, they must know how to fight, and second, they can be drivers, cooks, tank crewmen, or artillerymen.

No matter what they do, all the skills of an infantryman must be excellent before they can be assigned to do other things.

This group of trainees was studying hard to drive.

As for the other soldiers, they first completed the prescribed physical training program.

Aiming training was also something that had to be practiced every day.

After doing these things, they immediately busied themselves preparing for tonight's disassembly and assembly competition.

This was something that Liu Laopao had been looking forward to for a full month.

When his squad used to have only twenty people, he would organize the soldiers to practice disassembly, assembly, and aiming training every day.

In his words: "Diligence can make up for clumsiness! I practice every day, all the time, and I don't believe I can't practice well."

Later, his squad became a platoon, and his subordinates also changed from twenty to one hundred and seventy.

Liu Laopao's guiding principle had never changed: practice more, practice diligently, practice hard.

There was no skill in his team, he didn't know about skillful practice.

He didn't believe that practicing once could be worth a hundred times.

It wasn't just Liu Laopao who valued this competition, the entire Special Operations Detachment.

Every platoon, from the squad leader to the soldiers, attached great importance to it. Like last time, each platoon sent three contestants to participate in the competition.

Within each platoon, they had to hold a selection competition first.

The soldiers were in very high spirits today:

There wasn't enough time last night, so the Special Operations Detachment only chopped off a few horse legs from the warhorses that Commander Liu Xing had sent to eat first.

This was unlimited for everyone to eat, enough to fill their bellies!

Lin Fan had always thoroughly implemented the idea that the ability to eat was combat power.

He was never afraid of these soldiers eating well and eating a lot.

"If you want the horse to run, let it eat more grass!"

Although the Special Operations Company's soldiers had a high intensity of training every day, because the food was sufficient and there was meat every day.

The soldiers' physical fitness was increasing day by day, which was why this team dared to fight the Japanese with bayonets.

Being strong and well-trained, they were not afraid of anyone when fighting.

The warhorses were delivered in time last night, and there was only time to sort out the meat from the horse legs in a hurry.

Let the soldiers eat meat.

The offal of the warhorses was cleaned up and cleaned after dinner.

This morning, it began to be supplied to everyone.

Lamb liver, horse lungs, and pork intestines are the three best-tasting in folklore.

Originally, it was set aside, and the Special Operations Detachment would eat horse lungs at noon today.

Such good things were planned to be made by Lin Fan himself for the entire team to eat.

Lin Fan's cooking skills, according to the veterans of the Special Operations Company, were even better than those of the imperial chef.

It's just that plans can't keep up with changes, and the Japanese artillery bombardment meant that this plan could only be wishful thinking.

It wasn't that Lin Fan didn't go to cook.

But Lin Fan was still assisting in aiming at Battery A when cooking.

Today's results at Battery A, no one in the entire Jiangyin defense area knew.

All everyone knew was that Battery A had driven away the Japanese artillery.

Even Commander Xu Kang thought so. As for the results of the battle, because they were not observed, they could not be counted, so they were regarded as non-existent.

Lin Fan and the Special Operations Company had never cared about battle功.

Lin Fan returned to the Special Operations Detachment at 1:30 in the afternoon.

He issued an order to everyone in the camp: "Assemble immediately: Go out for a march at 2 o'clock."

Specific direction? Lin Fan was going to go behind the battery to take a look.

After Lin Fan's order was conveyed, the entire Special Operations Detachment immediately took action.

Especially those new trainees who had just driven the cars out of the air-raid shelter.

At this time, they were struggling to drive the cars in circles in the open space inside and outside the camp.

Kang Youjie had not yet had the opportunity to sit up and actually operate.

These trainees got into the car with the arrangement of the instructor, one instructor with three trainees per car.

The instructor had absolute authority on who to arrange to get into the car.

Now it was the second trainee to get into the car for an internship.

Kang Youjie watched He Feiyu drive the car with difficulty. He had just shaken the car on fire with a big crank.

Starting the car shook suddenly, and then stalled again.

The car immediately heard the instructor's rude scolding. Although it was not allowed to beat or scold soldiers in the Special Operations Detachment.

But most of the soldiers in the entire team came from the old army.

Usually, their violent temper had not yet been revealed.

When teaching students, the true temperaments of these instructors were all revealed.

Stupid students can really make these instructors angry to death.

"Add gas! Step on the clutch! Release the brake, shift gears! These must be coordinated well!

Coordinate well!

Do you know?

Even the cow knows how to step on the ditch three times, and you have been taught to start five times.

Still like this!

Are you less obedient than a cow!" The instructor's roar in the driver's seat was deafening.

It wasn't just one instructor scolding people, every instructor was almost the same.

The only difference was that the person being scolded was different.

When they received the order to go out for a march, Chen Sichuan looked at He Feiyu, who was still being scolded.

He smiled and shouted to instructor Jia Chengbi: "Keep your voice down, did the company commander scold you like this when you learned to drive a tank?

The teacher doesn't know how to teach, he only knows how to scold students."

Jia Chengbi said aggrievedly: "Platoon leader! It's been five times, five times."

Chen Sichuan said aggressively: "I don't care about these, get ready and leave immediately."

Jia Chengbi said: "Who drives this car?"

"The students take turns driving! If they can't drive this car away when the war starts, then change people." Chen Sichuan's image of a good person just collapsed in He Feiyu's eyes.

"Got it! Try it again, this is the last time, if you still can't do it well, watch how other people do it more in the afternoon.

Try it again later." Jia Chengbi finally lowered his voice a little and said to He Feiyu.

He Feiyu responded in a low voice like a wronged little daughter-in-law: "Yes!"

Chen Sichuan immediately shouted loudly: "Louder, what's the matter with a man being scolded by his master when he is an apprentice.

Scolding is scolding, you can't lose your energy.

A man who is not afraid of fighting the Japanese with bayonets, is still afraid of being scolded by his master?"

He Feiyu immediately replied loudly: "Yes!"

He quickly ran down and went to shake the engine again.

When the Special Operations Detachment drove out, the soldiers on the fortress watched their convoy get much longer again.

The twelve cars in front were loaded with a lot of equipment, including various shells and bullets.

Two anti-aircraft machine guns were placed on the two cars in front of the guns, one on each, and were already in firing position.

Nine cars in the back were equipped with a heavy machine gun, all of which were guaranteed to be in firing position.

The eighty-eight millimeter anti-aircraft gun assigned to the Special Operations Company was also towed behind the car.

The entire convoy looked very majestic when it drove out.

Xu Kang walked out of his command post and saw this scene.

He couldn't help but smile and said to Staff Officer He Hesong: "This Special Operations Company's training is very tight."

Staff Officer He smiled and said: "They practice so hard every day, and the soldiers have no complaints.

Company Commander Lin leads the soldiers well."

Everyone on the entire fortress was very happy today. The aftermath of yesterday's great victory was still there, and the Japanese artillery was afraid to fire cannons today, which was also a remarkable victory.

Every soldier gave enough reaction when he saw the Special Operations Detachment.

Some were envious and jealous, and some sympathized with those soldiers who had to train so hard every day.

The Special Operations Detachment ran out of the fortress in everyone's eyes.

Kang Youjie drove carefully, following the car in front.

Now the entire Special Operations Detachment's speed was not fast, less than twenty kilometers per hour. The distance between him and the car in front was at least fifty meters.

Although Jia Chengbi did not control the direction, he was more nervous than the driver.

This was Kang Youjie's first time driving, and he was driving on the road, still following in the convoy, so instructor Jia Chengbi couldn't help but be nervous.

He Feiyu watched Kang Youjie's operation with envy: others started driving as soon as they got started.

And they were able to follow the team forward. He had spent almost half an hour and had not yet learned to start.

Why is the gap between people so big?

He thought to himself, but his eyes were always fixed on Kang Youjie's operation, for fear of missing a little bit.

Originally, only one instructor and one driver were allowed to stay in the car, and the rest were running off the car.

He Feiyu was specially applied for by Jia Chengbi to stay in the driver's seat with Chen Sichuan, just so that he could carefully observe how to drive.

Jia Chengbi was also very worried about his stupid student.

The convoy was moving with the infantry, the infantry was running on both sides of the road, and Lin Fan's order to the team was to march quickly for an hour.

In the entire team, except for the drivers driving and the shooters on the car with those weapons set up.

Everyone else was running on both sides of the car.

This time, Lin Fan led the entire Special Operations Detachment down from Xiaoshan, first ran in front of the Huangshan position, and then passed through outside Jiangyin City along the highway.

All the way past Huashan.

At this time, the news that the Special Operations Detachment had passed Huashan had reached Xu Kang and Liu Xing's ears.

In any case, the fortress was still somewhat wary of Lin Fan's Special Operations Company.

Fortunately, this team stopped to rest after running to Nanzha Town.

This made Commander Liu Xing quietly breathe a sigh of relief.

If this company really ran out of Nanzha, should he order an attack?

This is a question!

Fortunately, this multiple-choice question did not appear today.

After the Special Operations Detachment rested for fifteen minutes, they set off again from Nanzha Town, returned to Xiaoshan Battery along Leiting Town and Dingshan Jintong Bridge.

This really put the hearts of many interested people in the entire Jiangyin defense area down.

This is an unspeakable precaution.

They cannot let the Special Operations Detachment know, nor can they let too many people in the defense area know.

But they must also prevent extreme situations from happening. This is really too difficult for Commander Xu Kang.

Fortunately, such a difficult day has finally passed.

What made Commander Xu Kang breathe a sigh of relief was that at least the Special Operations Detachment had not applied to load the ammunition they had promised them after receiving twenty cars.

At least these twenty cars ran out today, but they were all empty cars.

Twenty-one cars that were only distributed to the three platoons last night were all driven by trainees today.

Although there were always trainees who drove the cars into various situations along the way, they were finally able to drive out and drive back.

Lin Fan estimated that at this speed, these trainees could let go after running for another day tomorrow.

This afternoon really exhausted the people of the entire Special Operations Detachment.

In one afternoon, the entire detachment marched more than twenty kilometers.

Although the training volume of the entire Special Operations Detachment was large, their food was very good today.

Tonight, the detachment's dinner also had horse meat, and it was still unlimited.

Three meals a day, every meal with meat, made the soldiers very happy.

As for the roads they ran out this afternoon, compared to having meat to eat, it was nothing at all.

After half an hour of rest after dinner, it was the entire detachment's study time.

This time cannot be reduced or changed.

Knowledge is power, which has been derived from countless practices.

Although the power of knowledge sometimes shows up relatively slowly, like a spring breeze turning into rain, it is not noticed.

But Lin Fan insisted on believing this.

Even if there is a disassembly and assembly competition tonight, the one-hour study class must be finished before it starts.

The detachment's disassembly and assembly competition has begun again.

The rules of this competition have not changed. The first round is eight platoons, each sending one person, to compete for the top three.

Three players from each platoon will compete, and after three times.

There are nine winners who continue to compete.

Keep competing for the top three.

This time, the most surprised people in the disassembly and assembly competition were Niu Dongxing and his group who had been guerrillas for several years.

They had always believed that they were good at shooting guns, and disassembly and assembly were also excellent.

When they were fighting guerrillas in the mountains, the common people at the foot of the mountain said that they, the guerrillas, were sitting in the house roasting fire.

He was disassembling the gun and wiping it for maintenance.

Hearing the dog barking outside, he immediately wrapped up the package of gun parts.

While rushing out, he began to assemble, and he was already firing when he rushed out of the yard.

This is the common people's guess about their guerrillas.

It shows the guerrillas' familiarity with guns.

But today, Niu Dongxing and the others saw that the people participating in the competition were holding a Type 14 Nambu pistol in their hands.

The soldiers' hands did not look fast, but every movement was very precise, and they quickly disassembled the entire gun.

The Type 38 rifle was also the same.

For every type of gun, these soldiers were very fast.

Completely beyond Niu Dongxing's imagination.

These soldiers' movements can really reach the point of assembling the gun by running a field ridge in the rumor.

Tonight, the soldiers of the Special Operations Detachment canceled their physical training because they held a competition.