A week later, the men and horses of the other two battalions of the New Third Regiment also basically entered the Taiyue Mountains, and when the signal soldiers returned to report, Han Feng asked the signal soldiers to bring news to the three battalion commanders that all the cadres of the New Third Regiment at and above the company level had secretly assembled in Taiyue Village for a pre-war preparatory military meeting.

This was also the first military meeting attended by all cadres at the company and battalion levels in the entire New Third Regiment from the beginning of the division of troops to the present.

After the Battle of the Hundred Regiments, the New Third Regiment withdrew from the stage of Heyuan County, and the entire regiment began local guerrilla warfare, and never launched a war on a decent scale.

This military meeting naturally made all the cadres full of expectations, the cadres of the entire New Third Regiment may be in the same vein, most of them are militants in their bones, and the little devils have not been driven out of China for a day, so they are worried about killing a few more.

Anyway, compared to the crimes committed by the Japanese invaders on the land of China, no matter how many Japanese soldiers they killed, they could not be relieved of half of their salvation.

At the beginning of the meeting, Han Feng first had to hammer one thing: "Our regiment has all marched to the area of Taiyue Mountain this time, if all the troops are gathered, how many people can there be?" Lao Shi, Lao Deng, Lao Sun, the last time you had a meeting in Xiaoniu Village, you just said an approximate troop strength, this time you went back, did you count the actual troop strength? ”

Shi Wencai said: "If our battalion excludes non-combatants, if it is put into battle, the strength will be more than 3,600 people. ”

"The first battalion has developed very quickly in the past few months!" Han Feng lamented that this was much faster than when the independent regiment was divided, and the guerrilla units were developing much faster.

Deng Pang, the commander of the second battalion, said with a smile: "Regiment commander, if you want to say that the development of the first battalion is fast, then my second battalion is even more amazing, I said earlier that the elder of the first battalion likes to beat the swollen face and become fat, and the four thousand combat troops of the whole battalion can't be taken out, and last time I was embarrassed to say with an old face, and I also had four thousand people in one battalion." ”

This time it was with the facts, and Sven was choked up, "Then you should tell me, how many combatants are there in your second battalion now?" ”

Deng Pang chuckled: "No more, no less, it's more than four thousand and five talents!" ”

In this way, the strength of the second battalion is nearly 1,000 more than the strength of the first battalion.

Shi Wencai suddenly talked nonsense, you must know that before the division of troops, the strength of the first battalion was even more than that of the second battalion, to be fair, the second battalion has indeed grown faster than the first battalion in the past few months.

When Sun Desheng arrived, Lao Sun still had the character of making a fortune in a muffled voice, and when he reported the situation, he didn't see a little complacency, just like drinking boiled water, he said from his mouth flatly:

"Report to the regiment commander, the third battalion is now excluding non-combatants, and there are more than 5,800 people who can participate in the battle."

More than 5,800 people! Shi Wencai and Deng Pang gasped, looking at Lao Sun's calm appearance, the two of them suddenly blushed from the previous fight with each other.

But Han Feng was worried about another thing, he said: "If you look at the strength alone, our team will be assembled this time, and there must be nearly 15,000 people, which is a large number, and it can already be regarded as a large-scale corps."

I think that there were only so many people in one of our divisions, and when the strategic transfer of the Red Army ended, it was also the period when our organization was at its lowest, and the whole army added up to more than 30,000 people, and in a few years further, Yan Laoxi controlled the entire Sanjin region, and the number of regiments under his command was only a few regiments, and the number of troops did not even exceed 10,000.

That's a lot of what fifteen of us can do.

It's just that the current battle is not as good as in ancient times, and the war depends on more people, you see that little devil is fighting with us, which time is not several times less than us, or is it pressing us to fight?

At the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, a wing of the Japanese army ran after several divisions of the Central Army. ”

Xu Zilin said: "What the regiment commander said is right, we can't expand the troops only by expanding the number of people, but also by equipment and logistics, otherwise there are so many troops in the air but they can't exert their combat effectiveness, so many mouths to eat, food is a big problem, after a long time, such a team can't be maintained at all, let alone kill devils."

Fortunately, when the troops were divided before, the team was divided into pieces and fought guerrilla warfare in various places, with a few dozen people and a few hundred people, and the food and other things were made up and made up to hold on, and after the victory of a battle that was not too big, the captured spoils were enough for this team to last for a while.

But now it's different, we have nearly 15,000 people, which is the strength of a division.

I had calculated this matter with Lao Song of the Logistics Department before, and Lao Song counted the food storage in the team, and the situation that we were able to be self-sufficient in the Taiyue Mountains during this period, we estimated that if our team was assembled, the food on hand would only be enough to support five days. ”

Deng Pang said: "Political commissar, do you mean that if our regiment is all assembled to fight now, it will be able to fight for five days at most?" ”

Xu Zilin nodded: "That's right." ”

"But in just five days, a county town may not be able to take it.

Commissar, you don't know, the current situation of our three battalions is just like you said, there are many people, but there are few guns.

I don't know the situation of the first battalion and the third battalion, but for example, in my second battalion, no matter whether the gun can be fired or not, whether or not the bullets can be distributed at hand, my battalion has more than 3,600 people, and there are only more than 1,600 guns. ”

Deng Pang said with a wry smile: "I have already thought about it, as soon as the battle began, I assigned all the bullets and guns of the whole regiment to a company, and there is no way, it's not that I am partial to the company, but there are too few guns and ammunition in the battalion, and if I don't concentrate the guns and ammunition, I can't fire at all."

As for the rest of the brothers, those who had guns should install bayonets, and those who did not grab them took a machete, or even a wooden stick, and they had to rush up to Lao Tzu, and the brothers of the company in charge of the charge in front fell, and the comrades in the back picked up the guns and continued to use them, so that the entire battalion of men and horses could be regarded as having guns. ”

The words of the second battalion commander Deng Pang silenced everyone, this is actually the most helpless way to fight, once the battle begins, it will inevitably cause a large number of casualties, and the soldiers who did not get guns to charge behind are simply being live targets, just to distract the enemy's attention.

As for taking lives to consume the enemy's bullets, the devil's ammunition is not lacking, and you can't fill it even if you have tens of thousands of lives.

Shi Wencai sighed: "When I first developed, I didn't think so much, you love me, we won the recruitment office just pulled out, the villagers lined up, and then the recruitment was over, many villagers still have to join the army, I also know what the villagers are thinking, follow the Eighth Route Army, so that they will not starve to death, if they can't even be the Eighth Road, maybe one day they will be starved to death, or they will be killed by bandits."

So just like the political commissar said, now our troops are up, but the equipment is lacking! ”

Xu Zilin said: "Not only is there a lack of equipment, but also a lack of culture and thought, just like the first battalion commander said, many recruits join our Eighth Route Army just to have something to eat, this is understandable people's common feelings, but as long as they are willing to continue to stay in our team, this kind of thinking has to change, they have to know that we are not an organization that is together for the sake of eating."

It is an organization that gathers together for the common faith, for the independence of the motherland, and for the people of all China to live a good life, to work together, and not to be afraid of sacrifice and bloodshed. ”

"Old Han, now it seems that there are still many problems in our team, and if we want to condense the combat effectiveness, I am afraid it will take a long time.

The action in the area of Taiyue Mountain is a bit hasty! ”

"War will not prepare you, and the enemy will not wait for you to have a gun and then come and fight you." Han Feng got up, took the map drawn by the monk during this time and said......