The reason why Zheng Xiuchuan suggested establishing a base between Yuxian, Shouyang, and Yangqu was because he was only a deputy battalion commander of the Eighth Route Army, and he did not have Xiao Siming's vision of a soul traveler and familiarity with the historical process.

Xiao Siming is different, he knows that the Anti-Japanese War is a long process. Now it is only the early stage of the Anti-Japanese War, and the little devils are busy with strategic offensives, and they can't take any effort to take effective action against the Eighth Route Army. After the little devils have finished the battle of Wuhan and captured Guangzhou, and the big strategy is basically completed, they will free up their hands and launch a sweep against the base areas behind the enemy. At that time, the War of Resistance behind enemy lines has entered a difficult time, and the troops can't even eat.

Xiao Siming's vision looked further, he wanted to go east, to the plains, to Shandong, to the Huanghuaihai region, to establish a base, develop and expand the team, pull up a large army, and compete with the little devils.

The area between Shouyang, Yuxian, and Yangqu is too small to be suitable for small units to fight guerrillas. The scale of the army is a little larger, not only the activity area is limited, but the problem of food cannot be solved, and it is not the ideal base in Xiao Siming's mind.

Xiao Siming immediately instructed Zheng Xiuchuan on the phone to give 100 Jin-made rifles a ration of 100 rounds of ammunition per gun, and all of them were handed over to local comrades to organize guerrillas. Czech light machine guns, Jinzao submachine guns, shell guns, grenades and other ammunition were all brought back. The newly recruited recruits set up the second company of recruits on the spot, and Yang Cheng, the instructor of the baggage team, served as the commander and instructor of the second company of the recruits.

Xiao Siming finally told Zheng Xiuchuan that the baggage team only had one day to rest in Zongai Town, and they must rush to the county seat before 9 o'clock tomorrow night.

Zheng Xiuchuan said that one day was too short, and the military uniforms originally planned to be made in Zongai Town were too late to be completed.

Xiao Siming said that Zheng Xiuchuan is so smart that people are confused, can't they mobilize tailor shops and people with sewing machines to join the Eighth Route Army? The independent battalion will definitely build a quilt factory in the future, and it will need personnel and equipment. Instead of living a precarious life in the Japanese-occupied area, it is better to be the Eighth Route Army and devils, this reason goes without saying, right?

When Zheng Xiuchuan heard this, he patted his head directly, saying that just thinking about the troops going to fight and transfer, and carrying so much cloth and cotton was a burden, why didn't he think about building a quilt factory in the future? That's it, let Mei Ying go to the tailors early tomorrow morning to do the work, and she will definitely be able to do it!

When he said this, Zheng Xiuchuan was dizzy, and even told Xiao Siming on the phone: "Battalion commander, your daughter-in-law may have done it!" The same sentence makes her little mouth sound very good when she says it. The villagers in Zongai Town are asking who this female Balu is at night, and which family's daughter and Xu Ren are not! ”

Without waiting for Zheng Xiuchuan to finish speaking, Xiao Siming hung up the phone with a "flutter" and ignored him.

After putting down the phone, Xiao Siming asked Chen Qiang, did the division call back?

Chen Qiang reported that he had not yet called back.

Xiao Siming muttered in his heart, what's the matter, Master Lin and Director Luo are both meticulous masters, should they call back immediately after receiving the telegram!

How did Xiao Siming know that at this moment, the commander of the 115th Division, who received a telegram from the independent battalion, was using a horse lantern to illuminate the captured Japanese military map, where he was analyzing what might happen to the enemy situation after the independent battalion captured Shouyang, and he didn't care about sending him a telegram back.

Shi Poshan, deputy instructor of the independent battalion, was ordered to organize a front team in Zongai Town, and rushed to the county seat together with the front team from Sangshuping Village.

Xiao Siming immediately asked Shi Poshan, together with Mu Guangyao, the captain of the heavy machine gun team, and Wang Shengli, the deputy captain, to seal the warehouse of the Japanese puppet army, count the materials, and let the villagers of the front team rest and stand by first.

After Shi Poshan and Mu Guangyao left, the headquarters of the Japanese army was suddenly empty, and only Chen Qiang, the director of the radio station, Zhao Xiuhong, the radio instructor, and some soldiers of the communications platoon remained.

The radio station selected 10 educated and innocent young people from among the recruits recruited in Yuxian County, and after training, they began to work. Since the independent battalion had seized the Japanese army's complete airfield communications equipment at Taiyuan Airport, plus a 50-watt radio station that had been captured, the three combat companies had already brought a radio station with each of them when they set off just now, and they could contact the battalion headquarters at any time to ask for instructions and reports.

Seeing that Xiao Siming was free at this time, Chen Qiang and Zhao Xiuhong reported to him, saying that they had to hold a training course for newspaper operators and train more newspaper sending and receiving personnel.

This idea must be good, Xiao Siming immediately agreed. However, it is required that all personnel who send and receive telegrams must undergo military training, first as qualified soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, and then as newspaper operators. Moreover, every newspaper operator must be trained to join the party, be loyal and reliable, and would rather sacrifice his life than divulge secrets at critical times.

When he said this, Chen Qiang suggested that the troops compile and print a confidentiality manual, so that cadres and soldiers know what leakage is, what they do, and what they say may lead to leakage. For example, when making a phone call, you can't say where the troops are, it's very likely that the secret will be leaked!

This is a very gentle criticism of Xiao Siming!

Xiao Siming called Zheng Xiuchuan, the deputy battalion commander just now, and told him about the independent battalion's capture of Shouyang City, and also said that the baggage team should rush to the county seat tomorrow night. If this is heard by the Japanese puppet military supervisors, isn't it a serious leak?

Xiao Siming, who regretted it, immediately told Chen Qiang that Shouyang City was the base camp of the 36th Brigade of the Japanese Army, and there must be typewriters, printing presses, mimeographs and other equipment, which should be in the Japanese army's brigade headquarters, so go find it immediately! After finding it, print out the secrecy discipline of our army and send it to each company and team for cadres and soldiers to study. In particular, cadres above the squad leader level must be memorized by everyone and memorized in their minds.

From this, Xiao Siming thought that due to the need for secrecy, when the troops fought in the future, they would have to code all units like the main force, and the troop assembly areas and attack targets should also be coded. In this way, even if the Japanese military oversaw it, they would not be able to figure it out. At least not in a short period of time!

This matter should have been caught by the deputy instructor Shi Poshan, and I have to talk to him about it when I go back!

It was from this moment that the independent battalion thoroughly strengthened the sense of secrecy from top to bottom. Everywhere they went, the Japanese puppet army was completely stunned, and they couldn't figure out the details of their opponents at all!

When Mo Shan, secretary of the battalion general branch, led the engineer team, the recruit team, and the cavalry company to the county seat, it was already two o'clock in the night.

As soon as they met, the recruit captain Deng Wenli reported that the flying thunder cannon did work, and the advantage was that it was powerful, which was equivalent to soldiers throwing explosive packets on the heads of devils; The disadvantage is that the range is too short and the launch time is long.

Xiao Siming smiled in his heart, the advantages and disadvantages of the flying thunder cannon are still used by Deng Wenli? He knew very well that it was just a melee firearm, so rudimentary, where could it be fought far!

However, if attacking the Japanese heavy forces to hold their positions, the Flying Thunder Cannon can indeed achieve miraculous results. During the Huaihai Campaign in history, our army invented a flying thunder cannon because of its ugliness, which blew up Jiang's army and howled wolves.

The explosives package was easy to make, and when there was a base area, an arsenal was established and could be mass-produced. There were a sufficient number of explosive packs, and there were a large number of improvised launch canisters, and if the Japanese troops were surrounded and compressed on a fixed position, a group of explosive packs would fly through the sky and fall on the heads of the Japanese troops, the scene would have been quite spectacular!

Of course, because of its poor accuracy and short range, the flying thunder cannon cannot be compared with the cannon at all. Deng Wenli reported that the final solution to the battle was still the Gaoping dual-purpose cannon brought by Yuan Gang. Two cannons knocked out the large stone blockhouse in front of the Japanese stronghold, and two more cannons directly killed the puppet army's turret. As for the Japanese artillery tower, it was previously blown up by an explosive pack projected by a flying thunder cannon. However, it took a lot of effort, several shifts of positions, and continuous artillery fire, before the explosives package was thrown from the top of the devil's turret, and the brick and wood turret was blown up.

After the report, Deng Wenli still said with trepidation that fortunately he had captured the Gaoping dual-purpose cannon from the airport, and fortunately, Battalion Commander Xiao had many ideas and ideas, so he got a flying thunder cannon. Otherwise, the big blockhouse built of stone by the little devil will not be able to be conquered at all! The only way is for the soldiers to rush up with explosives bags to carry out the blasting, but the little devil's marksmanship is so good, if it is not for the surprise, the demolition team will not be able to get close to the pillbox, then the casualties must be great!

This is the early stage of the Anti-Japanese War, and the little devil has not taken care of the blockade line, Deng Wenli can think so much from the capture of Baijiazhuang's stronghold, so that Xiao Siming can't help but look at him twice, and feel that this old man is good at using his brain, and he is a master who leads troops to fight!

After Deng Wenli's report, Xiao Siming told him that the recruit team should be expanded! Now Zheng Xiuchuan has recruited 200 recruits in Zongai Town, and tomorrow they will recruit on a large scale in Yuxian County, and the three combat companies will also recruit troops in the course of the battle, and his goal in mind is to recruit at least 1,000 recruits in Shouyang County. In the future, these recruits were organized into 10 companies of 9 to 10 recruits, and instructors, deputy instructors, and deputy company commanders of each company were transferred to each recruit company to serve as company commanders and instructors, and at the same time, deputy platoon commanders and deputy squad leaders were assigned to recruit companies to serve as platoon commanders and squad leaders. All recruit companies are temporarily under the management of the recruit corps, and they no longer undertake combat missions and concentrate on training. The training period is tentatively scheduled for three months, and after three months, all recruit companies will be mixed with the three combat companies, the artillery team, the heavy machine gun team, the engineer team, and the baggage team, so as to expand and enrich the main force, and the recruit team will continue to undertake the task of recruiting and training troops.

Deng Wenli was enthusiastic when he heard this, and immediately reported that the battalion commander should rest assured that as long as there are soldiers, as long as the backbone of the combat company can be drawn from the combat company to participate in the management and training of new recruits, the recruit team will definitely be able to train the soldiers who are croaking everywhere!

Xiao Siming was very satisfied, and was about to praise Deng Wenli for a few words, but he didn't expect Deng Wenli to say next: "Battalion commander, consider my situation when the army expands." Actually, I'm not suitable for training recruits, I'm willing to go to combat troops. Alas, it's still fun with the little devil's real knives and guns! ”

Xiao Siming immediately took back the words of praise, and only said "Training recruits is equally important", so he rushed Deng Wenli to contact Zhao Xiuchuan, and the recruit team took over the defense of Shouyang City! (To be continued.) )