Speaking of this, the corners of He Zhendong's eyes twitched slightly, and then he looked at Zhao Shixun and asked seriously:

"Brother Shixun, do you remember Lishan Town and the 21st Regiment?"

"Lishan Town ......."

Hearing this, he muttered these two familiar names, and with the flickering of memories in his mind, Zhao Shixun's pupils contracted violently.

The operation of the 21st Regiment can be said to have left a deep impression on Zhao Shixun.

You must know that in just a few hours, the ** regular army of thousands of people was disintegrated by the Japanese army at a very small cost, and even the independent detachment almost fell in.

Looking back now, Zhao Shixun even felt that if it weren't for the cover of the sky, he would never have retreated so easily last time.

"You mean, they could be the same Japanese unit that attacked the 21st Regiment?"

"Hmph...... Although I don't dare to say that it must be them, I have a hunch that not only have these people not left Jinnan, but they are likely to have their eyes on us, to be exact, a high-value target such as your column. ”

As he spoke, recalling the before and after the collapse of the twenty-one regiments, He Zhendong's fists couldn't help but clench.

The destruction of the 21st Regiment is a scar that can never be erased in He Zhendong's heart. That battle was really too bad!

……

Hearing this, Zhao Shixun pondered for a moment and nodded thoughtfully.

A few minutes later, when the three of them arrived at the health team's station, they met Shao Mengru, who had just walked out of the ward.

Seeing Zhao Shixun and the three of them hurrying over, Shao Mengru immediately realized something, and immediately hurriedly stepped forward to stop a few people who were about to enter the puppet army ward.

"The patient has just undergone surgery and is still in a coma, so I advise you not to go in yet."

Hearing this, Zhao Shixun looked at the door of the ward and asked:

"Doctor Shao, how long will it take for this kid to wake up?"

"I don't know, it may take a day, it may take three or four days, after all, this person's injury is not light, and it is already his last life to accumulate virtue to survive until now."

……

Hearing this, Zhao Shixun sighed helplessly, and after instructing Shao Mengru to do his best to rescue this puppet army, Zhao Shixun and the three of them hurriedly returned to the command headquarters.

In the conference room of the headquarters, Zhao Shixun and He Zhendong held a closed-door meeting, and after a short discussion, the three decided to send a telegram to the first column in the name of the independent detachment and Zhao Shixun.

The content of the telegram was very simple, the first one was mainly the latest movements and intelligence about the Japanese army collected by Zhao Shixun during his trip to Xia County.

As for the second telegram, it was in the name of Zhao Shixun himself, "reminding" his superiors to pay attention to the recent infiltration and sabotage of the Japanese puppet army, especially the enemy's camouflage attacks. The reason why it was issued in the name of Zhao Shixun personally was mainly because Zhao Shixun and his people considered that so far, they had indeed not obtained any strong empirical evidence to prove their judgment, so they could only send a reminder in their personal name.

……

……

Zhangjiawan, Qin County, Jinnan, the headquarters of the first column.

"Kill...... Kill...... Kill......! ”

Under the scorching sun, with bursts of majestic shouts of killing, the commander of a column, Lei Wancheng, held a wooden gun and walked back and forth in the neat queue, while checking the assassination actions of these recruits.

Not far from the queue, Han Weimin, the commander of the new regiment, was standing beside Jiang Hongfei, the political commissar of the column, with his hands behind his back at this time, watching the drills of the recruit battalion under his command in the field with a little nervousness.

Three months ago, in order to improve the combat capability of the Eighth Route Army in the southern Jinnan area, the higher authorities ordered a large-scale reorganization and expansion of the anti-Japanese armed forces operating in the Zhongtiao Mountain area.

In line with the principle of unified command and integration of forces, the higher authorities transferred the county brigades of the three counties near the station of the former Jinnan Anti-Japanese Advance Column and a newly formed reserve regiment in the rear into the first column.

At the same time, the higher authorities also made an exception to replenish a large amount of supplies, weapons and ammunition for the first column.

As a result, the strength of the column, which had just recovered from last autumn's sweep, more than doubled in strength, and its strength increased even more.

As a result of this expansion, the total strength of the first column not only broke through the regimental level, but also directly approached the scale of the brigade level.

After the number of soldiers was greatly replenished, the first column timely upgraded and adjusted the original establishment in the near future.

Among them, in terms of the stationing of the column, the original first column and one battalion were upgraded and expanded into a new regiment of one column, with more than 1,000 men and horses in three battalions, and the battalion commander Han Weimin was directly promoted to regiment commander.

Although the third company of the original first column was rebuilt, considering that most of the soldiers of the third company were new recruits, the temporary structure remained unchanged and was placed under the jurisdiction of the column security section, and the section chief was Xu Guofeng, who had just returned from injury.

The original column machine gun company was expanded into a machine gun battalion with an establishment of 300 people.

The original guard communications company was divided into two, each of which was expanded into a company.

As for the logistics and health teams, they have also been replenished.

In terms of the troops sent abroad, less than two months after the original first column and the second company were expanded into the second battalion, they were directly expanded into the new second regiment of the first column without stopping, and the battalion commander Shen Cunzhi was directly promoted to regiment commander.

As for the special service battalion, there was originally a plan to upgrade it to the main force, but considering that the special service battalion had just experienced the vicious battle in Nanyang Village and was being repaired, the expansion plan was temporarily postponed. However, although it was not expanded, Lei Wancheng still added more than 200 recruits to the special service battalion in batches, which made the strength of the special service battalion steadily improve to a higher level.

Finally, for the independent detachment that was the farthest away, at first Lei Wancheng also had the idea of upgrading them and increasing the number of soldiers, but Jiang Hongfei, the political commissar of the column, thought that the current command system of the independent detachment was too complicated, and the instructor Zhou Yu was not in the independent detachment because he went out to study, so he thought that the current independent detachment should not be expanded again for the time being, at least not until Zhou Yu returned to the team.

Regarding Jiang Hongfei's concerns, although Lei Wancheng did not approve of it, he did not oppose it. After all, the composition of the command system of the independent detachment is really too special, and it is understandable that Political Commissar Jiang has concerns.

……

Soon, as the battalion commander in charge of the command issued the order to lift the assassination drill, the team of more than 300 recruits quickly put away their wooden guns and quickly completed the assembly of the team under the command of the officer.

And after seeing that the soldiers were assembled, Lei Wancheng, who had been on the scene for a while, returned to the political commissar with satisfaction.

Handing the wooden gun to Han Weimin, Lei Wancheng turned to look at the soldiers with good morale, and said a few words of praise and morale encouragement out loud.

Finally, after asking a few words about the training plan of the new barracks, Lei Wancheng told the other party a few more words, and then he and Political Commissar Jiang left the station of the new regiment and prepared to go to the machine gun battalion to see the training situation.

……

Zhangjiawan, inside the temporary headquarters of a column.

"Report ......!"

"Come in, what's the matter?"

Looking at the communication soldier holding the document in front of him, Xue Liqun put down the warm teacup in his hand, stood up and looked at the other party and asked.

"Chief of Staff Xue, it's the independent detachment that has sent a telegram, there are two copies of it before and after, and it needs to be handed over to the commander and political commissar for review immediately."

"Oh? …… Telegram from the separate detachment. ”

Hearing this, he walked to the communication soldier suspiciously, Xue Liqun took the folder, opened it and glanced at it briefly.

After a brief silence, Xue Liqun coughed lightly.

"The commander and the political commissar have gone to the troops below to check the training situation, I will receive this telegram on my behalf first, you hurry back to your post, if there is any latest telegram, send it to the headquarters immediately!"

"Yes......!"

With a salute, the communications corps quickly left the headquarters.

Ten seconds later, Xue Liqun, who was standing at the door of the headquarters, called a guard standing guard outside.

"Take this telegram and immediately go to the new regiment to find the commander and political commissar, and be sure to hand over the telegram to them personally!"

"Yes!"

……

After observing the heavy machine guns and mortars dismantling, transferring, and firing drills of the soldiers of the machine gun battalion, Lei Wancheng asked the battalion commander to gather the team together.

A few minutes later, looking at the neatly lined up soldiers in front of him, Lei Wancheng walked up to a Japanese-style 92 heavy machine gun and touched the shiny barrel radiator.

"Comrades, the commissar and I are very satisfied with your drills. It can be seen that you have been training very seriously and hard during this time!

But while everyone is doing well, I'm still going to nag here. ”

"I know that everyone is now very proficient in the operation of weapons, but everyone must understand that this battlefield and the training ground are not the same thing, and the difference is huge.

On the battlefield, you will not encounter immobile targets, but cunning, fierce and well-trained enemies!

Therefore, I hope that you will not be fooled by the results in front of you, and continue to train hard, and strive to improve your skills and tactics to a higher level! Do you understand? ”

"Understood......!"

At the end of the short lecture, after Political Commissar Jiang asked about the needs of some machine gun battalions, the two walked out of the training ground.

At this moment, a soldier from a guard company suddenly rushed towards the two.

"Report to the commander and political commissar, the independent detachment has just sent a telegram, and Chief of Staff Xue asked me to send it to you."

Hearing this, he took over the folder, and after opening it, Lei Wancheng took out a telegram from it.

After a quick glance, his otherwise relaxed face sank again.

"Old Lei, is there something wrong?"

"It seems that the intelligence of the headquarters is reasonable, and the independent detachment has reported that the devils over there in Xia County have basically completed the preparation of gathering troops and materials......."

Speaking of this, Lei Wancheng handed the telegram to Political Commissar Jiang, then looked at the communication soldier and said:

"You go and inform all the cadres above the company level of the column in Zhangjiawan to come to the conference room for a meeting immediately."

"Yes!"

After the guards left, Lei Wancheng looked at Political Commissar Jiang, who also had a solemn face, and said after a moment of silence:

"Lao Jiang, I think it is still necessary for us to strengthen the combat effectiveness of the independent detachment. After all, they were in a special position, and once the Japanese army began a sweep, they could easily fall into the encirclement of the enemy. ”

…… To be continued, thank you for your support. At the same time, in the days at the beginning of this May Day holiday, Hanhai wishes book friends a happy holiday and a happy day!