Although he single-handedly broke up the marriage between Li Ziyuan and Liu Cui back then, this old man still paid close attention to the Eighth Route Army in Taihang Mountain, especially Li Ziyuan and his troops, after all, it was a group of people who really insisted on resisting the war. However, because of the blockage of news, when the old man learned about Li Ziyuan, he could only find out the news in the newspapers of the Japanese puppet army and try his best to find out the news.

As the number one bandit in Taihang Mountain by the Japanese puppet, Li Ziyuan, who has the biggest cancer in the southeast of Jin, has been killed at least five times on the paper of the Japanese puppet in Taiyuan, and the number of times Li Ziyuan's department has been eliminated is even more. Although he disapproves of his ex-daughter-in-law getting together with Li Ziyuan, the old man still admires Li Ziyuan very much.

At least the Japanese puppet army can pay such a high reward amount, and the newspapers keep calling it a public security bandit and a tumor in the southeast of Jinjin, which shows that Li Ziyuan really hurt them. For such a real anti-Japanese hero, although he did not accept the proposition of the Eighth Route Army, the old man was at least not disgusted.

When Liu Cui found out that she was pregnant, it was also this old man who made the decision and supported the birth. Maybe it's to hide from Li Ziyuan, maybe it's to save this child. Soon after Liu Cui found out that she was pregnant, the old man sold all his family property and moved his family from the western part of Hubei to Taiyuan, claiming that the child was a posthumous child.

After Liu Cui gave birth to a son, this old man, who has always been a family heirloom with poetry and books, and a very strict ruler of the family, loved this child as if he were his own grandson. At least in his inner thoughts, once Li Ziyuan has any accidents, he can also leave a root for this anti-Japanese hero.

Of course, perhaps in the old man's heart, this child also carries the old man's sustenance for the eldest son who died on the battlefield. Although it is not his son's own flesh and blood, after all, he was born by his daughter-in-law. The old man not only loved the child very much, but also repeatedly warned his family that no one was allowed to tell the child about his life experience, let alone beat or abuse the child.

He is not allowed to live, not even if he is dead. This child is the eldest grandson of their family, and he is the grandson of their family. Under the careful care of the old man, although the child is still very young, he is smart and sensible, which adds a lot of joy to the old man who is getting older.

Of course, the old man has always been concerned about Li Ziyuan's news. Even the Japanese army set up a prisoner of war camp in Taiyuan, and every time a prisoner of war brought from the Taihang Mountains arrived, he would ask someone to secretly inquire about Li Ziyuan's news. Li Ziyuan was still alive and did not sacrifice as the Japanese pseudo-newspaper said, which made the old man somewhat relieved.

Otherwise, he really didn't know how to face it, he knew that he was in an extremely depressed mood now, and if he didn't have this child, he didn't know what Liu Cui would become. But the old man did not regret that he broke up Li Ziyuan and Liu Cui at the beginning, because he insisted that Li Ziyuan could not give Liu Cui happiness.

But the old man breathed a sigh of relief, but Li Ziyuan didn't know that he had become a father a few years ago, and he had a smart and strong son. Li Ziyuan, who thought he was just a father of three children, didn't know that counting the one in Chang Juan's belly, he was actually already the father of four children.

Of course, at least for now, he has no way of recognizing three of them. One would not tell the truth to the two children until five years later, and the other two would not tell the truth to the two children until the mother died. For Li Ziyuan, the child in Chang Juan's belly is the only one Li Ziyuan can openly hold out and show off, how can he not be ecstatic?

After learning that he was going to be a father, Li Ziyuan had a smile on his face all day long. The comrades-in-arms and subordinates who watched thought that their regiment commander didn't know what was crazy. However, after learning that Chang Juan was happy, several old comrades-in-arms were also sincerely happy for Li Ziyuan. Soldiers, who knows if they can come back if they go to the battlefield.

Nowadays, people are constrained by the traditional morality of unfilial piety and unfilial piety. There are few cadres and soldiers who do not hope that they will leave a descendant before they go to war. At least even if it's a sacrifice, you can give an explanation to your ancestors when you get there. Now that Li Ziyuan has a queen, although he doesn't know whether it is a man or a woman, several old comrades-in-arms are also happy for Li Ziyuan.

Compared with other simple-minded comrades-in-arms, they simply blessed Li Ziyuan. He Sanliang, who was slightly aware of something, smiled at Li Ziyuan knowingly. Although He Sanliang didn't know about Liu Cui's existence, he at least knew that Tang Qiao's pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses were inseparable from Li Ziyuan. Regarding He Sanliang's somewhat weird smile, Li Ziyuan could only laugh.

The old squad leader is even more dedicated, every time Chang Juan comes to the army or Li Ziyuan visits Chang Juan's station, he will try his best to get a few eggs or other nutritional products. Fortunately, the most difficult time has passed, and the troops who have successfully completed the infiltration of the western plains of Hubei and have gained a firm foothold are not difficult to get something nutritious now.

Ma Yongcheng also told the troops who went to the western plains of Hubei to find a way to get some nutritional products for the regiment to come back. Even Ma Yongcheng, who was very thoughtful, asked the troops to find a way to get some milk powder back during the event, so as to prepare in advance. The dedication and help of the old comrades-in-arms made Li Ziyuan feel very warm.

As for the second news, although it is not good for Li Ziyuan, at least it is not too bad. The 62nd Division, which had already ended the Battle of Central Henan, did not return to the southeast of Shanxi. It was divided from the First Army as a whole and changed to the direct jurisdiction of the Japanese army's base camp. The 14th Independent Infantry Brigade, which took over its garrison in the southeast of Jinjin, was much inferior in terms of weaponry and combat effectiveness.

Judging from the information coming from the inside, most of the officers of the brigade were mobilized several times, or some special officers and the like. The soldiers are old, young, and thirty or forty years old. The youngest is sixteen or seventeen years old, and he doesn't even have a hard beard, and the whole is a half-old child.

However, although the 62nd Division did not withdraw, the retreating First Army brought back a large number of weapons and equipment from Chongqing that had been captured in the Battle of Central Henan. Most of this batch of weapons and equipment, except for a part left for its own use, was used by the Japanese army to supplement and expand the puppet army.

At this time, the Japanese army's battle line could not be stretched any longer, and the Japanese army, which had obviously insufficient stamina, could only continue to expand the puppet army in order to prevent its ruling area from being encroached upon by the Eighth Route Army. Otherwise, not to mention others, just this 14th Independent Infantry Brigade can only sit and shut up in Changzhi City.

Even so, it was difficult for the 14th Independent Infantry Brigade to draw up mobile forces. The Japanese puppet army in the various control areas to which it belongs generally stays in the stronghold, and basically rarely goes out. Even when he goes out, he is usually represented by the puppet army, and he is hiding in the stronghold.

As a hardcore traitor in the eyes of the Japanese army, Wang Tieshi not only mixed up with himself after being a traitor for seven years, except for the puppet North China Appeasement Administration in Beiping, even the Wang puppet regime in Nanjing only acquiesced, and even the Japanese army did not recognize the major general brand. This time, the Japanese army greatly expanded the puppet army, and this guy reaped great benefits.

A large part of these weapons and equipment were given to Wang Tieshi's department. At the same time, the Japanese army also replenished some of the captured Chinese prisoners of war to Wang Tieshi's department. In August of that year, Wang Tieshi's department swelled up as if it were blowing. Some of the additional prisoners of war, plus the forced recruitment of some local young adults, the puppet army of the department expanded to more than 7,000 people.

After the completion of the large-scale reorganization, the puppet army of this unit is enough to be called elite at least among the puppet army in Shanxi. Each regiment has a heavy machine gun company and a mortar company, equipped with four Chinese-made Type 24 or 30-section heavy machine guns, four Chinese-made 82 mortars, and each infantry company has six light machine guns and three grenadiers.

Each battalion of soldiers had two companies, all armed with Hanyang-made rifles or Seomun-made Shinsi-style rifles, and the other battalion was a mid-formal. The original Jin-made firearms and Murata-style rifles, etc., miscellaneous firearms with few bullets have now all been completely eliminated. Even the four-year rifle has now largely been withdrawn.

Although the varieties of light machine guns are somewhat miscellaneous, many of them are Belgian machine guns and Czech machine guns, as well as French-made 79 light machine guns imported before the war, but the number is quite sufficient, and the caliber is all 79 calibers. The configuration of each company of six is even enough to make the Wang Puppet Sixth Front Army in Jincheng envious.

The Tanglin thief himself had a small arsenal, but as the army of the Wang puppet government in Nanjing, he was far less treated than Wang Tieshi, who was directly controlled by the First Army. Most of them were armed with home-made firearms, with no more than three or five machine guns per company. This time, the Japanese divided the pie and basically did not add anything to them.

The officers above the company commander level of the puppet army are all equipped with shell guns. At the platoon commander level, all of them used carbines. The strength of a company has almost doubled from the original 70 or 80 men to more than 140 people. Among the puppet officers at all levels, many of them were captured officers, and the overall military quality could not be the same as in the past.

And Wang Tieshi, this guy, also took the opportunity of this expansion to use his henchmen and descendants to set up a more well-equipped special service battalion. The entire battalion was made up of medium rifles, as well as Czech light machine guns. Each company had nine light machine guns, and none of the rifles were Hanyang-made.

The platoon commander carried a machine gun, and even the officers above were all German fast and slow machines. The battalion was directly subordinate to four Type 24 heavy machine guns and two 82 mortars. The battalion commander was one of his nephews. The firepower of this pistol battalion is almost equal to two battalions of the average unit.

A pistol company that was responsible for guarding him had two weapons each, except for nine light machine guns. This pistol company is all made up of henchmen among his henchmen. However, the Japanese only gave him five old-fashioned French-style mountain guns captured in the battlefield of central Henan.

A lot of other artillery pieces were captured, but none of them were given to him. And in terms of ammunition, it was all controlled by Japanese advisers. On weekdays, only thirty rounds of ammunition were issued to each infantryman. The artillery was not a single shell, and it was all controlled by the Japanese advisers. At the time of the battle, it was issued by the Japanese army advisers.

At the same time, according to the information from the inside, this guy also had a batch of medium and formal rifles in his hand, as well as more than 30 light machine guns, as well as five heavy machine guns and two small cannons. Along with the weapons and equipment he had replaced, it was secretly stored in a location unknown to no one but his henchmen.

In addition, this guy doesn't trust the prisoners of war in the First World War Zone who are replenished very much. Among the captured personnel who have been transferred, officers can only hold deputy positions, and squad leaders are all changed to deputy positions. The soldiers were completely disrupted, mixed with the young and middle-aged people forcibly recruited from the locality, and the soldiers were not organized according to the original structure as much as possible, which caused certain contradictions within him.