The recruitment of the Flying Tiger Battalion in Guozhuang was an unprecedented success!

After Ren Laifeng posted the conscription notice, it immediately attracted a large number of villagers to watch. At that time, the Chinese literacy rate of the common people was very high, and there were few literate people in the entire Zhuangzi of Guozhuang. So many people gathered in front of the big red paper to watch the excitement, and they didn't know what was written on it. After Ren Laifeng found out, he asked Zhou Lin to bring a few soldiers who could speak and read books to read the proclamation to the villagers, and by the way, he also publicized the idea of resisting Japan to everyone.

The villagers had already heard of the brutality of the devils, and the Flying Tiger Battalion had just won a battle next to their Zhuangzi, and now was the time when the military and the people were harmonious and the anti-Japanese ideology was rising.

The mother told her son to fight the East, and the wife sent her husband to the battlefield. These touching scenes are staged not only on Taihang Mountain, but also all over the country, including Guozhuang, where Ren Laifeng is located.

"Sir, this is my son, and I will hand him over to you today. Let him follow you as a soldier to fight devils and drive the little devils out of our China! A mother with slightly gray hair led her young and strong son to Ren Laifeng.

"Mother!" The young son cried out, holding his mother's hand tightly and reluctant to let go.

"Little tethered pillar, be obedient, follow the commander to be a soldier, don't go home if you don't drive away the devil!" The elderly mother had tears in her eyes, and the little leash nodded heavily. The tears of Ren Laifeng next to him have already flowed down his cheeks. He was touched by this great mother. Looking at this mother, his mind naturally remembered his mother in Meijiakou Village, his own mother in this life.

"What's your name?"

"Tie the pillar, Li Zhuzhu." The young little bolt pillar raised his head with his chest straight, and his clear eyes looked directly at Ren Laifeng.

"Li Xuanzhu, do you have a brother?"

"I have one brother and two sisters." Ren Laifeng just nodded, and Li Xuanzhu then said: "My sister married Liu Guigui of Dashiqiao the year before last, and my brother is also a national army, and he died in Kaifeng last month. ”

"Auntie, this can't be done!" Ren Laifeng's heart twitched violently after listening to Li Zhuzhu's family introduction, and he hurriedly waved his hand to stop Zhuzhu's mother from registering, "There are rules in our team, anyone who has two boys in the family can have one to join the army." You only have one bolt in your house, so let him stay at home and honor you. ”

"Honor me? What do I have to honor? Sir, you'd better let him go. If we don't get rid of the little devils earlier, we all Chinese will not be able to live in peace. The boss is gone, so let this little one do what his brother didn't finish! The words spoken by the bolt pillar mother were echoed loudly, and Ren Laifeng couldn't help but be stunned. This is our Great Mother! For the sake of their sons, they can give everything they have; For the sake of the country, they can send their only son to the battlefield!

Standing silently for a moment, Ren Laifeng respectfully saluted the bolt's mother as a sign of respect. At the same time, all the soldiers present saluted the villagers who sent their relatives to join the army.

In Guozhuang, the Flying Tiger Battalion recruited more than 100 recruits, and almost the vast majority of school-age youths were conscripted into the army. The troops stayed in Guozhuang for a day, and then received an order to continue south.

According to reliable information, the Japanese army has mobilized a large number of troops near Wuhan, and it is very likely that it will launch a major war of unprecedented scale against Wuhan, the capital of Hubei Province, in the near future, with the intention of capturing our great Wuhan! In order to cope with the possible outbreak of a major war, the Nationalist Government mobilized elite troops from all over the country to Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi and other provinces to concentrate on preparing for war. The Third Army was one of the units that was transferred.

The Flying Tiger Battalion received an order to go to Ruichang, Jiangxi Province with the troops. From Shandong to Henan, from Henan to Jiangxi, it spans thousands of miles. Not only is the road long, but the climate, water and soil, climate and environment are very different. In order to prevent accidental attrition due to unaccustomed water and soil, Ren Laifeng made sufficient preparations before setting off.

I bought all the pickles pickled in the homes of the people of Guozhuang, and bought a large number of ginger, garlic, and other vegetables that are easy to store. When it came time to pay, the villagers refused to accept it in every possible way, but Ren Laifeng insisted on paying in cash. The local villagers were not wealthy in the first place, and they gave all the men in their families to the army, even if it was used as a settling-in allowance for recruits, he had to give money to others.

What Ren Laifeng didn't expect was that the so-called things he did caused a lot of repercussions among the recruits who had just enlisted. This has given a great impetus to the rapid integration of these recruits into the force in the future. After the troops had made these preparations, they began their long journey the next day.

From the first day of the long march, Ren Laifeng deliberately controlled the speed of the troops' march. He forbade the troops to march hastily, let alone force them. The march of the Flying Tiger Battalion is to maintain a normal speed, and it is time to eat, eat, and rest. Every day when eating, Ren Laifeng asked the kitchen to add some ginger and garlic to the dishes, and there were a few hometown pickles at every meal.

After the Flying Tiger Camp left, the people of Guozhuang didn't have pickles and ginger and garlic to eat this year, so they were all taken away by the Flying Tiger Camp!

Not to mention, Ren Laifeng's strange tricks are really useful. Although from time to time they could receive orders from the military headquarters urging them to march, they had traveled thousands of miles, and not a single officer or soldier of the Flying Tiger Battalion had fallen ill because of their unaccustomed water and soil. On the other hand, the rest of the Third Army was very different. The troops went south for half a month, and more than 20% of the three divisions of the 12th Army fell ill because of the lack of adaptation to the water and soil!

Sun Tongxuan, who was the commander of the group army and the commander of the 12th Army, was about to die. Before they arrived at the place, the soldiers fell ill one after another, and when they met the devil in the place, how could the battle be fought? Don't be embarrassed to collapse without a fight! It's still a trivial matter to be embarrassed, in case he loses the Battle of Wuhan because of him, he Sun Tongxuan will be to blame! Then he'll have to shoot himself!

When the troops were resting that night, Ren Laifeng went to the group army headquarters to report on the soldiers and equipment of the Flying Tiger Battalion, and at the same time came to receive ammunition supplies. Commander-in-Chief Sun happened to see Ren Laifeng and called him over to inquire about the current situation. Commander-in-Chief Sun hadn't seen Ren Laifeng for a while. The first person to promote him to an officer was Sun Tongxuan himself. He is the old commander of Ren Laifeng.

"Huh? Ren Laifeng, you are very energetic! After the two of them had spoken a few words, General Sun noticed that Ren Laifeng was very different from the officers he had seen in the past few days. The people he saw were either sick or sallow, and they were not sick and were dying. It's all uncomfortable! Even Sun Tongxuan herself has been feeling unenergetic these days, why is Ren Laifeng's spirit so good?