As soon as Zhou Yu's words came out, the atmosphere in the conference room immediately changed, and Zhao Shixun looked at Zhou Yu beside him with an appreciative face.

Although Zhou Yu's words are fluttering, they are indeed hidden needles! First said that Staff Officer Xue was seriously injured and carried out of the village, and then said the fact that the troops lacked means of communication. On the surface, it is a statement of facts, but the deeper meaning of the expression is -- does it mean that without the approval of your Staff Officer Xue, it is a private action?!

Sure enough, although these words seemed to be nothing, Xue Liqun's face changed after hearing it, and he didn't know how to answer for a while.

Xue Liqun knew very well in his heart that although he was a staff officer of the Vanguard Regiment, he was not yet the chief of staff. As the saying goes, a staff officer doesn't have a commander, and a fart doesn't make a sound!

Although the above has already intended to appoint himself as the chief of staff of the vanguard regiment, as long as the official appointment is not a day later, he will not have the real power to directly command the troops. Although Zhou Yu's words seemed to be painless or itchy, they hit Xue Liqun's vital point.

In front of the regiment commander and political commissar, Xue Liqun would never dare to trespass, otherwise it would inevitably leave a bad impression on the two of them that they were in love with power.

However, Xue Liqun is also a very scheming person, and when he saw that Zhou Yu had dug a pit for himself, he was obviously waiting for him to jump in. With this premise, it is obvious that the more you justify, the more you will have the opposite effect.

Seeing that he was likely not able to bargain for anything today, and the regiment commander and political commissar still did not blame Zhao Shixun in the slightest after listening to his statement, Xue Liqun pondered for a moment, and then followed Zhou Yu's words and said:

"Instructor Zhou said seriously, I didn't say that commanders can't make decisions on the battlefield. As we all know, the situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and fighter planes are often fleeting. Therefore, as a qualified commander, it is indeed important to have the initiative and grasp of the fighter, but this does not prevent him from reporting his ideas to friendly forces and superiors in a timely manner. I didn't blame Comrade Zhao Shixun, I just did what I had to do and said what I had to say, not to mention that I did it for the good of Company Commander Zhao, after all, he had just joined the Eighth Route Army. ”

Speaking of this, Xue Liqun looked at the head of the regiment and nodded slightly, and said leisurely:

"Regiment Commander Political Commissar, I'm done talking."

After waving his hand to signal Xue Liqun to sit down, Political Commissar Jiang Hongfei put down the pen in his hand and folded his hands, stared at Xue Liqun and Zhou Yu for a few moments, and then looked at the people present and continued:

Although Staff Officer Xue's words are not popular, they are also true, and I hope Comrade Zhao Shixun can understand them. The army is a place where discipline and discipline are emphasized, and this is all the more true for our Eighth Route Army, as a revolutionary army. Although limited by our current equipment communication capabilities, it is somewhat unrealistic to report in real time and ask for instructions on everything. However, we cannot let this go unchecked, and I hope that you will report everything in the future combat missions without losing a fighter. Do you understand? ”

"Understood."

Political Commissar Jiang obviously saw that he was a little tired, but he didn't have time to talk about such trivial matters now, so he chose to play 50 boards each and then put an end to this innocuous topic.

The second half of the meeting was mainly devoted to the discussion of some issues that the Pioneer Regiment urgently needed to solve, including the expansion of troops, the division of defense areas, and the training and supply of troops.

In the end, the result of the discussion in the defense area was that Han Weimin continued to take a battalion to be responsible for the recruitment and training of recruits, and by the way, he was responsible for the vigilance and defense tasks of the regimental headquarters. The 2nd Company was responsible for the defense of the east side of the north side of the regimental headquarters, where the defense area was large, but the enemy's forces were not strong.

The defense on the west side of the highway was directly grabbed by Yang Chenghu. Everyone knows where it is next to the highway, and the oil, water and fertilizer are very good, but no one can compete with Yang Chenghu, and the regiment commander also intends to let the spy company with the strongest combat effectiveness of the pioneer regiment get greater development.

As for the sparsely numbered Seventh Company, it was arranged by the regiment commander to the south side of the mountain in the direction of Hengqu County. The mountains here are so steep that there is no way to go. Although it is more than 30 miles away from Hengqu County in a straight line, it can't get through at all. Therefore, the defensive pressure is also the least, but it is also basically impossible to see the ghost of the Japanese puppet army.

This division is not because the regiment commander and political commissar deliberately make it difficult for the Seventh Company, but because the number of the Seventh Company is too small at present, and it is urgently necessary to expand and replenish the Seventh Company. Therefore, the regimental commander and political commissar made a special arrangement so that the Seventh Company could have time to quickly restore its formation. Moreover, after the Seventh Company was assigned to the southern defense, Political Commissar Jiang also asked the First Battalion to immediately replenish the Seventh Company with 30 soldiers who had completed the training of recruits, which could be regarded as taking great care of the Seventh Company.

Due to the fact that the Japanese army is currently in the southern part of Jinnan along the Yellow River and the national army in the second war zone, the rear is empty and the material transfer is intensive. Therefore, a document was also issued above, asking the vanguard regiment to seize the fighter plane and rapidly expand the base area and the size of the troops.

In view of this, the regiment commander and political commissar had already set up a recruitment office in the garrison, and at the same time sent several teams to the nearby villages in the mountains, with the help of local organizations, to begin to propagate the ideas of the Eighth Route Army and recruit new fighters for the vanguard regiment.

The day after the meeting, Xu Dongsheng came to the barracks of the Seventh Company with 30 recruits who had been enlisted for three months of training. Although Han Weimin is not very familiar with Zhao Shixun, he has not played any tricks, and none of the soldiers sent this time are recruits who are less than a month old. Of course, there are no veterans who have fought tough battles, not because Han Weimin is picking the door, but because veterans are baby bumps everywhere, and no one will send them to outsiders.

After assembling the team, Zhao Shixun looked at the soldiers brought by Xu Dongsheng.

These people are all soldiers who claim to have completed training, but in Zhao Shixun's eyes, these people are basically no different from recruits, and they are even inferior to the recruits of the second-line troops of the national army in terms of military technology, and they are even less comparable to the central army. The only difference may be that they can understand simple queue passwords, plus they have touched a gun. As for whether he fired a gun or not, it was clear to see that only half of the thirty people had a bayonet in his hand.

The only consolation is that these fighters are all young men in their mid-twenties. Although he is black and thin, at least the foundation is okay, and there is no one who is old and weak.

After Xu Dongsheng left, Zhao Shixun sent someone to call back the Seventh Company that was training outside.

Seeing that there were additional soldiers, the soldiers of the 7th Company were very excited. After all, the number of people in the Seventh Company, which has only more than 40 people, is too small, and those who pull it out and don't know which platoon they think are from the spy company.

There was no nonsense, Zhao Shixun directly divided the recruits into four groups, which were supplemented into four squads, with seven people in each squad. The extra two were assigned to a squad, which was regarded as the signal corps of the whole company.

Due to the last time the firearms were smuggled from the woods from the big pillar, plus the seizure in Zhengjiapo, it was diverted. At present, the Seventh Company still has 38 rifles, two box guns, and one crooked machine gun. For the seizure brought back by Zhao Shixun, the regiment commander specially allocated five Hanyang-made weapons and 100 rounds of ammunition to the Seventh Company.

With the new soldiers, the old immortal secretly took out fifteen Hanyangzao and five bayonets from the storehouse, as well as some water bottles and bullet boxes of the Japanese army, and divided one among the fifteen soldiers without guns.

These new fighters were overjoyed to be given a gun. In the ranks of the Eighth Route Army, everyone knew how scarce guns were. Even the vanguard regiment, which is currently regarded as a surplus of guns, cannot guarantee that each person has a gun. These fighters have been training in the first battalion for more than three months, and only half of them have guns, and the rest can only take a large blade.

Now this seventh company, which has just been assigned to the weakest strength of the whole regiment, has been assigned a gun to each person! Look at it this way, where is the weakest company in these seven companies, and it is clearly the richest company!

Looking at the excited soldiers after receiving the guns, the old immortal did not forget to give a serious word of advice when he handed the guns and bullets to each soldier.

"Gua Wazi, the guns were snatched back with their lives by the brothers of the Seventh Company, you must cherish them, don't break them!"

After giving each recruit a gun and five rounds of ammunition, Zhao Shixun regrouped the team, and then immediately let the big pillar continue to train outside.

Zhao Shixun didn't plan to go to this morning's training, he wanted to stay with the old immortal, waiting for a guest who came to pick up the goods.

This guest was none other than Yang Chenghu, who had helped a few words in the woods outside Zhengjiapo Village.

At the beginning, in order to let the remaining people of the Seventh Company stay to pick up Zhao Shixun, the old immortal found Yang Chenghu and asked him to help speak at the meeting. Yang Chenghu is the old Eighth Road and the pillar of the pioneer regiment. No matter how crazy Xue Liqun is, he doesn't dare to ignore Yang Chenghu's opinion.

In order to be able to move Yang Chenghu as soon as possible, the old immortal promised to give him a little benefit - fifteen rifles, a light machine gun and three hundred rounds of ammunition.

No, as soon as the meeting ended yesterday, Yang Chenghu sent someone to inform the Seventh Company, saying that he would bring someone to get things tomorrow.

Although I didn't say what it was, it was self-explanatory.

Regarding Yang Chenghu's behavior of taking advantage of the fire, Zhao Shixun was not surprised. This kid has been at odds with him since he learned that he was from the Kuomintang, and it's normal to be able to do this kind of thing. Even Zhao Shixun felt that Yang Chenghu was authentic, at least he hadn't taken the opportunity to help Xue Liqun.

Seeing that the inventory that had been saved up was at the bottom all of a sudden, the old immortal touched the polished Hanyang made one by one, walked to the corner of the wall and squatted down to light the pipe, full of reluctance.

"Turtle son's, such a good thing, the surname Yang deceived me in a few words, the more I think about it, the more I feel panicked. Sir, we just have to pay the bills, what if we don't give it to him, can he still grab it? ”

Looking at the depressed old immortal who was squatting on the ground, Zhao Shixun sighed, took out a treasured Hade Gate and handed it to the other party in the air.

"Okay, this little thing is nothing, and we will all come back after a few more battles, it's not worth paying for this little thing, it will only make people look down on us.

Come, give you a good cigarette to smoke. ”

"Yo, Hadmen, this is a rare good thing. Thank you, sir, ....... ”

Standing up and taking the cigarette, the old immortal opened his cloudy eyes and exclaimed. He didn't light it immediately, but put the cigarette to the tip of his nose and sniffed it as if he were intoxicated.

……

To be continued.

Collect!

(End of chapter)