The signal corps is specially set up by an independent battalion, and is mainly familiar with the Japanese army's flag language liaison, air liaison, light liaison, and flare gun liaison.

Because grenadiers and light machine guns have been incorporated into the machine gun squads and grenadier squads of each infantry platoon, and the heavy machine guns and infantry guns are concentrated in the battalion artillery and heavy machine gun teams, the fire support units of each company basically have only establishments and soldiers, and no weapons. Just wait for another war and capture!

After Zhang Huaide, the platoon commander of the artillery platoon, was transferred to the instructor of the second company, the artillery cadres Zhao Xiuchuan, Li Hubao, and Zhao Fu, who were transferred from the fourth detachment of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, that is, the former 115 Division teaching team, were all transferred to the artillery platoon, and the artillery platoon was also renamed the artillery team, with Zhao Xiuchuan as the artillery captain, Li Hubao as the instructor, and Liu Li and Zhao Fu, the former deputy platoon commanders of the artillery platoon, as deputy captains.

The cadres are professional artillery cadres in the Eighth Route Army, and although the artillery team now has only two infantry guns, it must also be built in accordance with the regularized artillery. Therefore, basically all the veterans of the battalion who had served as artillerymen, or new soldiers with elementary school education and initial Chinese, were selected and transferred by the artillery team. There is no way, artillery is a technical job, and the same artillery, accurate and inaccurate are two concepts.

The heavy machine gun platoon has also been changed to weigh the machine gun team, with Mu Guangyao, the platoon leader of the heavy machine gun platoon of the 685th Regiment who has just returned from injury, as the captain, and Wang Shengli, the deputy platoon commander of the original machine gun platoon, as the deputy captain.

After Chen Minghui, the captain of the baggage team, was promoted to the instructor of the third company as he wished, the baggage team had no leader and no soldiers. Wang Xuejun was appointed as the chief of the logistics section of the independent battalion and the leader of the baggage brigade, Yang Cheng was appointed as the instructor, and Sun Wenyu was appointed to manage the logistics support work of the independent battalion in a unified manner.

There are no recruits left in the recruit team for the time being, but the shelves cannot be dispersed. Deng Wenli, the former deputy captain of the recruit team, was promoted to captain, and Zhang Zhengren, the squad leader of the second battalion of the 685 regiment who had recovered from injury, was promoted to deputy captain.

With the transferred engineer cadres, Xiao Siming organized an engineer team, with Sun Zhicheng as the captain and Tong Ming and Meng Decai as the deputy captains.

After several battles in the front, no explosive equipment such as explosive bags of the Japanese army was captured, and only the sapper pickaxes and sapper shovels equipped by the Japanese infantry were captured. Therefore, as soon as the engineer team was established, Sun Zhicheng mobilized the soldiers to provide clues and began to search for explosive bags and detonators that could be used in battle.

The most pitiful is the cavalry platoon, and Jin Chaji transferred Liu Zhaoming, Ma Ming, and Wu Peng

Three cavalry cadres, the independent battalion also had more than a hundred captured military horses. It's a pity that Liu Zhaoming, Ma Ming, and Wu Peng were disappointed after seeing it, because these military horses were all pack horses, and there was not a single war horse. The separate battalion also did not have a single horse rifle suitable for cavalry cavalry!

Disappointed, the three of them went to find Xiao Siming.

Xiao Siming replied that war horses, horse rifles, and war knives are not a problem, the key is to select personnel and train cavalry. Taiyuan was occupied by the Japanese army, and Shanxi could still be without the cavalry units of the Japanese puppet army? The next time you meet it, fight a battle, and capture some war horses and cavalry equipment.

Seeing that Xiao Siming said easily, Liu Zhaoming and the three of them had nothing to say, so they could only select fighters and temporarily use pack horses instead for training.

The teaching team was personally led by Xiao Siming, but there was no organization for the time being, but Xiao Siming gathered the cadres of the company platoon and trained for three days, teaching the five major technical essentials of infantry bombing, shooting, stabbing, blasting, and earthwork, as well as the tactics of infantry squad wandering and movement tactics under enemy fire.

Don't underestimate the three-day cadre tactical training, you must know that these company platoon cadres are all old Red Army or promoted from the rescued soldiers of the National Army, they are all experienced in a hundred battles, and they have very rich experience in actual combat, and what they lack is tactical concepts. Let Xiao Siming's intensive training, the technical combat level of the cadres of the independent battalion has undergone a qualitative leap, and it can be said that it has been reborn, and no cadre can shout "rush, kill" after firing three shots, exposing the troops to the firepower of the Japanese army.

After the completion of the grouping and integration of the various combat units, the organization of the independent battalion headquarters was also set up. According to the specialty of each cadre, Li Qi was appointed chief of the First Section (Operations Section) and operational staff officer of the 115th Independent Battalion of the 115th Division, Wang Wanyou was appointed chief of the Second Section (Investigation Section) and reconnaissance staff officer, Chen Qiang was appointed chief of the Third Section (Confidential Section) and confidential staff officer, Xu Yan was appointed chief of the Fourth Section (Political and Education Section), Mei Ying was appointed chief of the Fifth Section (Propaganda Section), Wang Xuejun, the leader of the baggage team, was concurrently the chief of the Sixth Section (Logistics Section), and Feng Li was appointed the chief of the Seventh Section (Security Section).

Chen Desheng's spy platoon was divided into three and became a guard platoon, a reconnaissance platoon, and a communications platoon. Among them, Chen Desheng, former commander of the spy platoon, served as the commander of the guard platoon of the battalion headquarters, Wang Wanyou, chief of the second section and concurrently concurrently served as the commander of the reconnaissance platoon, and Rong Guanhong, a field telephone communications cadre who was transferred, served as the commander of the communications platoon.

The communications platoon consists of a cavalry communications squad, a field telephone communications squad, and a signal communications squad.

The former deputy platoon commander of the special service platoon, Guo Tian, was reappointed as Wang Lushui's guard.

The battalion headquarters set up a radio station, with Chen Qiang, a confidential staff officer, as the director of the radio station, and Zhao Xiuhong as the radio instructor and translator.

For the time being, the independent battalion did not have a high-power radio station, only an 18-watt 94-style No. 5 No. 32 type transmitter. That's it, Chen Qiang and Zhao Xiuhong have already made them excited, because they can use this small radio station to train operators and run radio operator training courses!

The most important thing is that the independent battalion fought cleanly, and the little devils did not have time to burn the cipher codebook. Chen Qiang and Zhao Xiuhong were like treasures after seeing the cipher code book given to them by Xiao Siming, and the two of them buried themselves in copying a copy, and then contacted the three detachments and asked them to send someone to send the cipher code book to the Jinchaji Military Region Headquarters.

The formation of the combat detachments is over, and the battalion headquarters organization has also been set up, and Wang Lushui can be regarded as completely understanding that the independent battalion organization organized by Xiao Siming is far from being an infantry combat battalion organization, it is the structure of a main regiment and main brigade!

When Wang Lushui exchanged his views with Xiao Siming, Xiao Siming also bluntly said that the independent battalion will definitely develop and grow in the future. Not only independent battalions, but also the main forces of our army will develop and grow in the future. How could the Japanese army be defeated by relying solely on the three divisions and more than 40,000 people reorganized by the Eighth Route Army? These more than 40,000 people are just seeds, and they have to develop into an army of 400,000 or 4 million in order to completely eliminate the little devils and create a new China!

When he said this, Xiao Siming also joked with Wang Lushui, saying that a leader of your level as Wang Political Commissar will definitely be a brigade commander, brigade political commissar, division commander, and division political commissar in the future, and even lead an army of tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people!

said that Wang Lushui's eyes lit up, and such a calm person was actually a little intoxicated!

What surprised Wang Lushui was not only these, Xiao Siming sacrificed a killing weapon, adopted the new method of reorganizing the army in the history of our army, and carried out a grievance campaign in each company and platoon, complaining about the suffering of being exploited and enslaved, and the suffering of being invaded by the Japanese army. For a time, the independent battalion camp was full of soldiers' cries every night, whether it was the old Red Army, the rescued soldiers of the National * Army, including the new soldiers who joined the army, everyone was complaining!

A grievance movement has reborn the entire independent battalion, and there is no longer any distinction between the old Red Army, the soldiers of the National * Army, and the new soldiers.

After joining the army for so many years and doing political work for several years, Wang Lushui has never thought of carrying out the political work method of the grievance campaign!

In addition to being surprised, Wang Lushui began to pay attention to summarizing the experience of the grievance movement!

Not only to carry out the grievance campaign, Xiao Siming pulled Wang Lushui, took the new deputy battalion commander Zheng Xiuchuan, deputy instructor Shi Poshan, and battalion general branch secretary Mo Shan, and plunged into the various companies and platoons, eating and living with the soldiers, talking with each person one by one, understanding each soldier's family background, combat experience, and ideological dynamics, so that the cadres and soldiers were like brothers.

From the night of 14 December, when he received a telegram from the 115th Division on the formation of an independent battalion of the division, to Xiao Siming's initial completion of the training of the whole army, more than 20 days passed in the blink of an eye.

After the baptism of the grievance campaign, the cadres and soldiers who had initially completed the reorganization and training of the troops screamed and began to write a letter of request to the battalion headquarters, asking for an attack on the Japanese invaders!

The cadres all came to Xiao Siming to report, and none of them said that their troops had a lot of recruits, and they were a recruit team, on the contrary, they all said that the soldiers were holding back their strength, and they were waiting for the battalion commander to give an order to test the little devil's neck!

The commander of the first company, Qiu Wei, reported: "Battalion commander, my fire support company No. 40 is empty-handed, not to mention the 92 infantry gun, the 92 heavy machine gun, and I don't even have a Wang Ba box!" It's time for a war, we've got to go to the little devil and get the guy back! ”

Cao Ming'an, the commander of the second company, said very explicitly: "Battalion commander, the Japanese army has already eaten rice and white noodles, canned beef, compressed biscuits, and horse meat of the pack horses killed by the Japanese army." Now every day is millet porridge, yam eggs, corn nests, and the mouth is so light that the birds are about to fly out! We have to hurry up and fight, and if we don't fight again, the people of Yuxian County have opinions about us, and they will say that we only train and don't fight, so it's better to go home and marry a daughter-in-law to live a hot life! ”

Wang Mengren, the commander of the third company, was as his name suggested, and when he saw Xiao Siming, after saluting, he roared loudly: "Report to the battalion commander, the third company has completed the preliminary training, and the recruits are screaming, all shouting to find little devils to practice marksmanship and fight bayonets!" I couldn't stop it, so I had to come and report it to you! ”

With such a high morale and such a strong sense of fighting, Xiao Siming is finally relieved, and he is no longer afraid of the complex composition of the troops and the loss of the chain at a critical time.