"Genzi, you're still good, but you have too little combat experience." Wei Dayong pulled Liu Gen up and said with a smile.

Liu Gen nodded, "Then we will have to fight more in the future, but your kid's fist is too hard, and it hurts a little too much to fight against you." ”

Looking at his fist, Liu Gen could see that the skin on it had been broken, and if he continued to fight with Wei Dayong, then it was likely to hurt his bones. Who made Wei Dayong's fists so hard? Liu Gen was a little puzzled why Wei Dayong's fists were so hard.

"That's because you practice less, you look at my fists." Seeing the injury on Liu Gen's fist, Wei Dayong said with a smile.

Wei Dayong stretched out his fist to let Liu Gen take a good look, Liu Gen's gaze fell on his fist, and he could see that Wei Dayong's hands had extremely obvious calluses. And compared with Liu Gen, Wei Dayong's fingers are obviously much thicker, and his hands look very powerful.

"No wonder, the training of the next battalion of soldiers will be handed over to you, be strict, as long as the fighters don't have physical problems." Liu Gen nodded and said.

Looking at the soldiers of the first battalion, Liu Gen asked the soldiers to continue training, and without Liu Gen saying it, Wei Dayong directly started the training of the soldiers. Liu Gen, the new battalion commander, was not idle, he trained with the soldiers, Wei Dayong has real kung fu, and he naturally wants to learn something from Wei Dayong.

With Wei Dayong's teaching, the soldiers of the first battalion worked harder in training, and after seeing Wei Dayong's strength, the soldiers naturally wanted to become as strong as Wei Dayong. Not to mention, the soldiers could see that Liu Gen, the new battalion commander, was also training with them, so they naturally didn't dare to relax in the slightest.

In the training, Wei Dayong is quite strict, and if the fighters do not perform well in training, he will first point out the shortcomings of the fighters. If the soldiers commit another offense, Wei Dayong will not be polite, he will directly compete with the soldiers, even he can't beat him, what qualifications do the soldiers have not to train seriously?

Even Liu Gen has been trained by Wei Dayong, but Liu Gen has a strong learning ability, and whenever Wei Dayong points out his shortcomings, he can quickly correct them. I have to say that Liu Gen invited Wei Dayong to be an instructor in a battalion, which was a very wise choice.

With Wei Dayong's teaching, the soldiers of the first battalion had obvious changes in just two or three days. Coupled with the queue exercises that Liu Gen asked the fighters to do every day, the discipline of the fighters has been significantly improved.

As for Zhao Gang coming to the first battalion as an instructor, no one in the first battalion objected, and the soldiers still had a very good impression of Zhao Gang, the political commissar. When Zhao Gang came to the Independent Regiment, he treated the soldiers quite gently, and whenever there was any problem with the soldiers, Zhao Gang, the political commissar, would solve it quite patiently.

It is precisely because of this that Zhao Gang was able to successfully integrate into the independent regiment not long after joining the independent regiment and was loved by the soldiers. Especially after Zhao Gang revealed his marksmanship, the soldiers of the first battalion were even more satisfied, and when they listened to Zhao Gang, the marksmanship instructor, they were quite serious.

Two days after Zhao Gang came to the first battalion to teach marksmanship, Liu Gen selected some qualified puppet soldiers to join the first battalion, and the puppet soldiers selected by Liu Gen were not bad. After Zhao Gang's ideological education, he deeply realized his mistakes and chose to join the independent regiment to fight devils.

Some of the puppet troops who had just joined the first battalion could not be integrated, and after Liu Gen scattered the puppet army and divided it into each squad, and required the soldiers of each squad to unite, and the results of each squad would be recorded every day, and the corresponding rewards and punishments were given, this situation was improved to a certain extent.

A week later, the newly added puppet army to the first battalion successfully integrated into the first battalion and truly became a part of the first battalion. Of course, this is also due to the fact that the warriors are all in a similar situation, they all come from poor families, have a common language, and can talk together.

What's more, with the reward and punishment system proposed by Liu Gen, every squad of soldiers in the first battalion is quite hard and conscientious, and there can be no fighters in each squad who are dragging their feet. This also means that the puppet soldiers who are newly added to the first battalion will be helped by the soldiers in the squad, and the communication between them will increase, and they will naturally be better integrated into the first battalion.

Half a month later, the devil's summer encirclement and suppression was declared a failure, and the various units of the little devils who had encircled and suppressed the Eighth Route Army's base area withdrew from the base area and returned to their respective strongholds. In the past month, all units of the 129th Division have fought hundreds of battles with the devils, especially the 386th Brigade, under the command of the brigade commander, which has effectively killed and injured the devils' vital forces.

The battles between the units of the Eighth Route Army and the devils made it difficult for the devils to advance in the base areas, and various combat methods such as guerrilla warfare, sparrow warfare, and mine warfare made the devils unable to defend themselves. Every little devil was annoyed by the attacks of the troops of the Eighth Route Army, and in the end they could only declare the failure of this encirclement and suppression.

It is said that the success of the Eighth Route Army's counter-encirclement and suppression this summer made Yoshio Shinozuka, the commander of the First Army in Shanxi in North China, quite angry, and the vases in his room were broken. After Yoshio Shinozuka took office, he organized several encirclement and suppression of the base areas of the Eighth Route Army, but each time it was resolved by the Eighth Route Army, and brought a lot of losses to the little devils.

This time, the success of the Eighth Route Army's anti-encirclement and suppression made the belligerent Yoshio Shinozuka extremely disappointed, and at the same time, he paid more and more attention to the continuous growth of the Eighth Route Army's base in the rear.

In July, the strength of the devils shrank, but in order to clamp down on the development of the base areas of the Eighth Route Army, the Japanese army vigorously promoted the cage policy of "taking the railway as the pillar, the highway as the chain, and the pillbox as the lock". Japan has built strong strongholds near large and small towns, stations, bridges, and tunnels along the railway lines, each with tens to hundreds of troops, and sent armored trains to patrol them.

Among them, the Zhengtai Railway played an important role in the "cage policy" of the devils, and the Japanese army used it to isolate the connection between the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army and the Taihang Mountain base area where the 129th Division was active and the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei border area, and relied on the Zhengtai Railway to attack the anti-Japanese base area.

On the front line, the defeat of the Nationalist army in the Battle of Zaoyi caused the Japanese army to occupy Yichang and directly threaten Chongqing. In order to shake the will of the national government. Since 18 May, the Japanese air force has further escalated its strategic bombing of the large rear. The Japanese army strengthened the economic blockade of China in front, and the military offensive and political inducement to surrender made the War of Resistance more difficult, not to mention the vacillation of some people within the Kuomintang, and the crisis of compromise and surrender was unprecedentedly serious.

On July 22, 1940, the Independent Regiment received a telegram from the division headquarters, which was the "Campaign Preparation Order" issued by the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, and the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army decided to implement the plan of attacking the Zhengtai Railway, which was brewing maturely, and took the initiative to attack the communication line of the devils, so as to give a powerful blow to the North China Front, support the frontal battlefield battle, smash the intention of the Japanese army, and make the situation of the anti-Japanese war in the whole country improve!

"Haha, I knew there would be a big move at the headquarters, and it seems that my expectations were still very accurate!" Independent regiment, regiment headquarters, Li Yunlong looked at the telegram sent by the division headquarters, and looked excited.

"Yes, this time our 129th Division dispatched at least 8 regiments, the 120th Division dispatched 4 to 6 regiments, and the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region dispatched 10 regiments, plus most of the artillery regiments at the headquarters and engineers. and the county brigades and district squads in various regions to cooperate, this time it will definitely be enough for the devil to drink a pot! Zhao Gang also said with some excitement.

Kong Jie didn't say anything, but his eyes kept on the military map, and he was probably already thinking about how to kill the devil!