Xiao Siming is a person who works vigorously and resolutely!

After the morning exercise, after the troops had breakfast, Xiao Siming discussed with Wang Lushui and Chen Yisheng, transferred the platoons of the independent battalion from the county government and the No. 1 High School Courtyard where they had originally camped, and moved into the station of the former Yuxian Security Regiment, and began to train the troops.

Because Xiao Siming criticized the recruit team, artillery platoon, and first platoon by name during the morning exercise, the flames in the hearts of the cadres of these three units suddenly jumped up, and as soon as they came up, they began high-intensity training.

The first training is naturally the standing training in the queue training!

On the playground, each row pulls each row of teams, and the sound of the password to stand up and take a break comes and goes, and the trumpets of one, two, one, left, right and left are one after another.

Qiu Wei, the leader of the platoon, shouted at the top of his voice: "Raise your head, stand up with your chest up, stand up with your legs straight, your eyes round, and look ahead!" If you have an enemy in front of you, you can scare him to death with your gaze! ”

Zheng Xiuchuan, the captain of the recruit team, is an old Red Army from Hubei, Henan and Anhui, and his voice is not loud, but his speech is particularly ugly: "Lao Tzu was originally charged into battle, just because he was the captain of this recruit and trained you to be qualified soldiers, he was not able to participate in the battle of Aozipo!" It's because of you again, Lao Tzu was taught a lesson by the battalion commander early in the morning! If I don't train you well, I'm afraid that this independent battalion won't have Lao Tzu's job in the future! Listen to me clearly, stand up straight, hang your hands to the sides of your legs, look ahead, which turtle son can't stand straight, drive away immediately, don't stand up straight in the independent battalion of the 685th Regiment of the Eighth Route Army! ”

Artillery platoon commander Zhang Huaide's face has always been purple from the morning drill to the present, and the words he shouted out were in a tone: "Shame!" Lose face! What a shame! Lao Tzu has always been praised from being in the Red Army to the present, and today he was criticized for the first time, and he was thrown to his grandmother's house! Battalion Commander Xiao said that the artillery platoon is a group of veteran oilers, who have the bandit habits of the national * army, and they are free and loose! This is the battalion commander shaving my ears in the face! And it smokes very hard and loudly! Does your face hurt? Lao Tzu's face hurts to death! Listen to me clearly, which one is not straight, standing badly, Lao Tzu will not be verbose with you, and when the allowance or reward is issued, Lao Tzu will directly deduct your allowance and reward, buy a big rooster, eggs, and pork to comfort the wounded and sick, let you drool greedily in your mouth, and scold your mother with regret in your heart, I can't wait to buy some good cigarettes and wine, please Lao Tzu train you again! ”

It's really everyone's own style!

The troops are training on the training ground, and Xiao Siming is also busy!

There are thousands of families and one person in charge, and this is never a good thing to say. Especially the independent battalion belongs to the initial stage, the instructors and deputy battalion commanders are not complete, and the battalion headquarters has not been set up.

Dozens of fellow villagers in front of the front branch of the county seat left, leaving ten young men to join the independent battalion and become the Eighth Route Army. As soon as this former villager left, the independent battalion had no one to cook, and it was difficult to say where to eat lunch. Xiao Siming had no choice but to let the captains of the baggage team, Chen Minghui and Yang Tong, find a way to select people from among the soldiers and form a cooking class. Unexpectedly, Chen Minghui and Yang Tong went to each platoon to ask again, and those platoon commanders and deputy platoon commanders all shook their heads like rattles, saying that there was no one in their platoon who could cook. made Chen Minghui's head big, and he came to Xiao Siming and said that he was the deputy platoon commander of the third battalion, and he had been the deputy company commander of the Red Army before the reorganization of the Eighth Route Army. Don't say anything, he just went down the well upside down today, and he also wanted to go to the room to cook a pot of rice for everyone, I don't know if it's delicious or not, I guarantee that it is cooked! After making lunch, he quit as a baggage captain, and went to be a squad leader in the first platoon, the second platoon, the third platoon, or the fourth platoon, even if he was a soldier, anyway, he was not the unlucky baggage captain!

It was not only the cooks who were the problem, but more than 100 pack horses were seized, and breeders had to be arranged. As soon as the villagers left, there were only two main and deputy captains left in the baggage team, Chen Minghui and Yang Tong, and no one even did anything to feed the horses and get feed for the horses.

Chen Minghui and Yang Tong also tried to find a way, and if they wanted people from each combat platoon, they aimed at the recruit platoon, and wanted to transfer a part of the soldiers who had joined the army to the baggage team, set up a cooking class, and select breeders. Unexpectedly, the independent battalion was fighting successively, and there were so many Type 92 heavy machine guns, Type 96 light machine guns, grenadiers, 38 big covers, and Wang Ba boxes that no one used, and these new soldiers were all waiting for the end of the training to become artillerymen, machine gunners, and soldiers, and none of them were willing to go to the baggage team!

When he said it, Chen Minghui looked angry, as if he was bullying him by making him the captain of the baggage team!

Xiao Siming laughed in his heart when he heard this, and told Chen Minghui that the baggage team was responsible for keeping and transporting the family funds of the whole battalion, and it would develop into a logistics management department of the army in the future. When the independent battalion has opened up a new base area, it will also set up its own clothing factory, arsenal, pharmaceutical factory, and so on, and there will be more things to do, and if it is done well, its contribution will not be less than that of the combat unit. Whether or not the troops will be able to fight and win big battles in the future depends on whether the logistical support of the logistics departments is in place. The reason why you let Chen Minghui be the captain of the baggage team is because you value your perseverance and courage to catch up with the troops all the way after you were wounded and left behind during the Long March, and it is absolute trust. Think about it, the baggage team not only has the weapons, ammunition, medicines and other supplies captured by the whole battalion, but also the captured yellow gold bars, white silver dollars, colorful yen, and fiat currency. Whoever is allowed to do it, that is who to trust. At the very least, don't worry that you Chen Minghui will donate money and run away!

Chen Minghui was anxious all of a sudden, stood up and saluted, and shouted: "Please rest assured, Camp Commander Xiao!" I, Chen Minghui, were killed by devils, and I would also think about burying and concealing the captured materials and funds before I died, so as to ensure that not a penny would fall into the hands of the Japanese army! ”

After yelling, Chen Minghui remembered that he was here to pick a pick, so he went around and around, and let Xiao Siming, the red ghost, go around.

Looking at Chen Minghui, who looked frustrated, Xiao Siming said that it didn't matter if the cooks and breeders could not be selected from each platoon, they could find another way, and the baggage team recruited soldiers separately, specifically recruiting those talents with special skills, such as cooks who can cook, horsemen who can raise horses, automobile soldiers who can drive cars, coal mine blasters, electricians, and mechanics who know how to use explosives. Including barbers, the troops are needed. In the future, the troops will also set up engineer platoons, engineer companies, and engineer battalions, and arsenals.

The most important thing is that Xiao Siming told Chen Minghui that it is necessary to recruit more intellectuals, especially intellectuals who study physics, chemistry, and machinery.

Chen Minghui was stunned when he heard this, and couldn't help but ask: "How do you know so much?" I don't know? ”

Xiao Siming said that he studied in Shanghai and Guangzhou since he was a child, and he heard and saw a lot. This war is actually a logistics. With sufficient ammunition, enough food and medicine, the troops naturally became stronger and stronger. On the contrary, the soldiers have no food, no bullets in their guns, and they cannot be treated in time if they are injured, even if everyone is not afraid of death, they all pounce on the little devils and fight with bayonets, it is useless, and they cannot win.

Chen Minghui is an old Red Army, who has come all the way from hardships and hardships, and after listening to Xiao Siming's words, he was completely enlightened, and he stopped being verbose, and led the deputy captain Yang Tong away.

What Xiao Siming didn't expect was that the first thing Chen Minghui did after leaving was to take Yang Tong to a relatively large restaurant in Yuxian County, and he didn't know what method he used, so he mobilized the chefs in the restaurant to join the army. As a result, when the meal started at noon, Xiao Siming finally ate the most flavorful meal since the soul crossing!

That's not all, when Wang Lushui and Chen Yisheng came to find Xiao Siming, they found that the walls on the road were plastered with slogans for recruiting soldiers from the independent battalion, and the words were crooked, but the slogans were quite exciting!

"Do you want to kill the devil to avenge your loved ones? Independent battalion recruitment! ”

"Do you want to take down a devil with one shot? Independent battalion recruitment! ”

"It's easier to kill a devil than a pig! Independent battalion recruitment! ”

"Carrying a gun as an eight-way road, the eight generations of ancestors are glorious! Independent battalion recruitment! ”

"Poor buddies who cut hair, repair locks, mend pots, nail shoes, cook, strike iron, drive donkey carts, and recruit soldiers from the independent battalion!"

"Those who go to the coal kiln, play with explosives, understand electricity, and recruit soldiers from the independent battalion!"

"Do you let the little devil kill with your bare hands, or kill the devil with a shot with a 38 big cover, what do you choose? Independent battalion recruitment! ”

"I have studied mathematics, physics and chemistry, and I am not afraid to follow the independent battalion all over the world!"

This recruitment propaganda slogan is simply varied, and Wang Lushui and Chen Yisheng who watched it frowned, saying that it was a mess!

However, although the recruitment slogan is a little unelegant, it can be seen clearly, that is, the recruitment of independent battalions is eclectic, and everyone wants it!

In the afternoon, outside the gate of the independent battalion station, people were already queuing up one after another to sign up.

In the evening, Chen Minghui happily came to report, saying that 60 people had been recruited today, including those who could cook, cut hair, raise livestock, strike iron, and pick and repair locks.

The most exciting thing is that Chen Minghui said that he has recruited two technicians who used to be employees in Yangquan Iron Works, one can use lathes and the other is electrician!

Xiao Siming was overjoyed, patted Chen Minghui on the shoulder and encouraged him to come on, look hard in Yuxian County to see if there are any technicians and workers who have worked in Yan Xishan's arsenal, as long as they find it, they must be mobilized to join the Eighth Route Army!

When Chen Minghui left, Xiao Siming confessed that the recruitment of the baggage team should be eclectic and not limited to age, just like those who had served as artillery and automobile soldiers of the Northwest Army, the Northeast Army, and the Jinsui Army. The Japanese army has so many artillery pieces, so many cars, tanks, and armored vehicles, and it will be a pity that they will have to be put into use directly if they are captured in the future, and it is a pity that the captured cars will be burned and blown up like the Pingxingguan ambush, the Guangyang ambush, and the Qigan Village ambush!

Chen Minghui said don't worry, no matter where the troops go in the future, the baggage team will be responsible for posting recruitment posts and recruiting technical troops!