This time, he asked Takato to personally lead two of the less injured warriors to retrieve some of the gold.

Before leaving, Liu Chengqian told Gao Yuan to pay attention to safety, and then he must not let the soldiers who followed him to transport the gold know the location of the buried gold.

Before that, he had already taken out all the remaining gold in his hand and gave more than half of it to Zhou Zuopeng, asking him to fill up the soldiers as soon as possible.

In addition, Liu Cheng also gave Zhou Zuopeng 20 mortars, 30 heavy machine guns, 200 light machine guns, and a tank.

Liu Cheng didn't want any of the eleven 75mm mountain guns that Zhou Zuopeng's people had worked hard to get back before, and they were all left to Zhou Zuopeng.

Although there is still a certain gap between this firepower configuration and the standard configuration of a division, Zhou Zuopeng is very content.

At least in the number of seventy-five mm mountain artillery, it has doubled compared to his original thirty-ninth division.

Although the number of light and heavy machine guns and mortars is still insufficient, Zhou Zuopeng is not worried.

Now that he is no longer the obedient Zhou Zuopeng under Zhang Haipeng, weapons, ammunition, food and other materials will naturally not be supplied, and he has to find a way to get it himself.

The weapons in his hand now don't sound like much, but they are enough to fight some small and medium-sized battles.

After the team is replenished, the battle with the little devils will continue, and then these equipment will naturally be snatched from the enemy.

However, in this case, of course, he must uphold the principle of "persimmons should be pinched softly", focus on those battles that are guaranteed to be won, and slowly accumulate enough money to gradually expand the scale of the battle.

One thing, like Liu Cheng, Zhou Zuopeng didn't think about how big an official he would be in the future, or what kind of luxury life he wanted to have.

If it was to enjoy the glory and wealth, he could have stopped resisting the Japanese and honestly continued to work for the Japanese, at least to a certain extent, he could live a life that ordinary people would not even dare to think about.

A month later, Zhou Zuopeng's team had regained the standard establishment of a reorganized division, four regiments, with a total of 6,870 men.

However, Zhou Zuopeng announced at the first time that the establishment of the 39th Division would be cancelled and renamed the Second Independent Battalion.

Four regiment commanders were demoted to company commanders in an instant, but one company had 1,700 people.

Liu Cheng couldn't cry or laugh after getting the news.

His machine gun company also had a lot of troops, but it only had 1,500 men, and it was ready to be transferred to other companies at any time.

Liu Cheng always controlled the number of independent battalions within 5,000 people, and divided them into more than a dozen companies, just to avoid trouble after entering the customs.

But Zhou Zuopeng is good, he didn't think about it so much at all, and directly organized the team into four companies of more than 1,700 people, isn't this a joke?

It's okay in the Northeast, but he can't get into the customs in the end?

In order to avoid trouble, Liu Cheng immediately found Zhou Zuopeng and said straight to the point:

"Master Zhou, it may not work to change like this, right? I can understand your feelings, but let's continue to use the teacher as the organization.

Also, if you only plan to operate in the Northeast in the future, then you have no problem with how you organize it, and no one will trouble you for at least ten years; But if you plan to enter the customs, then this kind of random organization will definitely not work. ”

Zhou Zuopeng waved his hand:

"What are you doing at the customs? Lao Tzu wants to fight devils against Japan, and there are no little devils in the gate! ”

Liu Cheng looked at Zhou Zuopeng with a bitter face, with a helpless expression.

Naturally, he couldn't tell Zhou Zuopeng directly, saying that the Japanese would launch a full-scale war in three years, but could only explain to Zhou Zuopeng in a speculative tone:

"Do you think that the Japanese have only one ambition, Tohoku? Think about it, what have they been doing since 918? Rehe has been occupied, and Mongolia has become their bag, and now even parts of Shandong and Shanxi are under their control;

Moreover, they are still eyeing Chahar and Suiyuan, and the big and small battles are going on one after another, doesn't this explain the problem?

We are now in the Northeast, so what if we expand the team to 20,000 people? Not alone? If we don't resist Japan for a day, we can only be regarded as stragglers, can we still form a regime on our own? ”

Originally, Liu Cheng just wanted to use this to explain the situation and let Zhou Zuopeng understand the ambitions of the Japanese.

But as soon as he finished saying this, it seemed to remind Zhou Zuopeng.

Zhou Zuopeng's two eyes instantly widened, his expression seemed to be suddenly realized, and he slapped his thighs violently:

"That's right! Damn, why didn't I think of it? If you don't say that you kid has brains, let's train the team, go back and go to the next county town in one go, and then continue to expand the team, won't we have a firm foothold?

When the time comes, just pull up a big banner and appoint yourself to an official position, as long as you are kind to the people, they will definitely support us; Little by little, our territory is getting bigger and bigger, and our troops are getting stronger and stronger, isn't it just around the corner to drive the little devils back to their hometown? ”

Liu Cheng rolled his eyes and almost fell to the ground.

I have to say that Zhou Zuopeng does have a certain talent and ability in operational command; But in other aspects, the idea is really strange and I dare not compliment.

He patiently explained:

"My Division Commander Zhou, don't you know how many troops the Japanese have in the Northeast today? Ten reorganized divisions! And that's not even counting the professional troops and puppet armies of all sorts!

Even if we take 50,000 people back this time and successfully defeat more than a dozen county towns in a short period of time, but what next?

The Japanese only need two divisions at most, and the planes and artillery fire in unison, what will be the result for us? ”

Zhou Zuopeng suddenly stopped talking.

He just said in passing after listening to Liu Cheng's words, and he didn't know anything about these things at all.

In his head, almost all of them were battle maps, and nothing else was in his mind.

Hearing Liu Cheng say this, Zhou Zuopeng was speechless for a moment.

After a while, he raised his head again and looked at Liu Cheng with a firm gaze:

"We don't understand these things, anyway, I'll follow you wherever you go, as long as you fight devils, everything else is up to you!"

At this moment, Liu Cheng seemed to see Duan Jinghe's shadow on Zhou Zuopeng's body.

The same rough and free, the same unconditional trust.

Liu Cheng smiled, but that smile looked in Zhou Zuopeng's eyes, but it was a bit like Lao Tzu watching his son who had always been stubborn grow up......

Indeed, Liu Cheng did feel a little relieved in his heart; As for that smile, there is no way, according to his actual age, Zhou Zuopeng is a little too young to be his grandson......