On January 19, 1938, the nineteenth day of the lunar calendar, there were only 11 days left before the Spring Festival, a traditional Chinese festival. The person sent out to liaise with the regimental headquarters on this day finally returned, along with a cavalry platoon and a middle-aged man in his thirties.

In addition, they also brought an order from the 120th Division, and from now on, the 1st Battalion of the Teaching Regiment was reorganized into the Chanan Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Detachment, which was directly under the command of the 120th Division, with Ma Zheng as the detachment leader. In order to get in touch with Ma Zheng's headquarters in a timely manner, and learned that they had captured a radio station of the Japanese army, the headquarters of the 120th Division specially sent a telegraph operator for them.

In fact, the reorganization of Ma Zheng's unit into a guerrilla detachment was also a last resort, and when he learned that the first battalion of the teaching regiment was not completely wiped out, but fled to the southern Cha area, and at the same time took advantage of the weak defense of the enemy to regain the county seat of Fengzhen for a time, and beat the little devil hard, the entire 120th Division headquarters was surprised and naturally very happy.

However, after being happy, Master He was a little difficult, it stands to reason that the first battalion belongs to the formation of the teaching regiment, and it should be returned to the establishment immediately if it is okay now, but now the problem is a little complicated.

Some time ago, the first battalion of the teaching regiment was completely annihilated by the Japanese army, which caused an uproar within the Eighth Route Army, and the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army was extremely angry about this incident and gave a stern warning to the 120th Division. Then the 120th Division held a meeting and decided to rebuild the first battalion of the teaching regiment, and now the structure of the teaching regiment is still intact, and the first battalion has inadvertently become a motherless unit.

Besides, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army has reported this matter to the Yan'an side, and the General Political Department has also sealed all the files of the first battalion of the teaching regiment. What's more, now that the roads from the north to the south are blocked by the Japanese army, it is very difficult for Ma Zheng's troops to return to the building, and now it has become a question of where this army will go.

In desperation, the 120th Division had no choice but to ask the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army for instructions. In the end, it was the Eighth Route Army Headquarters that decided that the first battalion of the teaching regiment where Ma Zheng belonged did not need to be rebuilt, and was reorganized into the Chanan anti-Japanese guerrilla detachment on the spot, which was directly under the command of the 120th Division. Ma Zheng was the leader of the newly established Chanan Guerrilla Detachment, and the rest of the military and political cadres were reported by the Chanan Guerrilla Detachment to the 120th Division for the record.

Ma Zheng can be said to be overjoyed by the decision of the division headquarters, but he also has some doubts, what level of establishment is the anti-Japanese guerrilla detachment in southern Chasanan, and what level is he as the leader of the detachment.

However, it seems that this is not bad if you think about it the other way, if there is a clear level, it will not be easy for the army to be expanded. However, now that there is no rank in the troops, there is no fixed number of soldiers in the troops, so that the troops can be expanded whenever they want, and there is no need to report to the higher-ups.

After contacting the division headquarters, Ma Zheng reported the recent actions and achievements of the division headquarters to the division headquarters, and when he learned that Ma Zheng's headquarters had lost contact with him, he had once again achieved an unprecedented victory, not only completely annihilating a complete infantry brigade of the Japanese army, killing the notorious Japanese army lieutenant Sadao Takeda, but also breaking through the county seat of Fengzhen for the second time.

This caused another uproar in the 120th Division, but when they learned that Ma Zheng's headquarters had also suffered a lot of losses, Master He personally sent a telegram to the Chanan guerrilla detachment, asking them to continue to carry forward the spirit of not being afraid of strong enemies and sacrifices, and striving to create greater and more brilliant achievements.

With the order of the division headquarters, Ma Zheng immediately carried out a comprehensive reorganization of the headquarters, and now there are more than 4,400 soldiers on Hades Mountain, of which more than 3,600 are bandits captured before.

After reorganization, the Chanan Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Detachment had three brigades, one guard squadron, one cavalry squadron, one machine gun squadron, one special operations brigade, and one field hospital. At the same time, the women's special service company was abolished, and all female soldiers were transferred to hospital nurses.

After the reorganization, each brigade has four infantry squadrons of 200 men and a guard squadron of 150 people, and the total strength of the entire brigade is 974 people.

In addition to these combat units on the surface, Ma Zheng also asked Xu Xiaolin to secretly set up an intelligence processing center, and allocated more than 300 people under his command.

In addition to him serving as the detachment leader, Huang Sicheng and Wang Hansen were both promoted by Ma Zheng to deputy detachment commanders, the captain of the first brigade was served by Huang Bingyan, the acting company commander of the former Fourth Company, the captain of the second brigade was appointed by Chen Xudong, the acting company commander of the former fifth company, and Wu Xiuda, as the first bandit leader to defect to the Eighth Route Army, was appointed by Ma Zheng as the captain of the third brigade.

The squadron leader of the guard squadron was Xu Hu, who was rebuilt, the cavalry squadron was still commanded by Ma Desheng, the machine gun squadron was still Li Mingda, the captain of the special operations brigade was still Tie Niu, and the director of the field hospital was Li Haiyan.

After the completion of the reorganization of the troops, the first task is training, because the previous training plan was completely disrupted because of the sudden attack of the little devils, but it is precisely because of this victory that those bandits with different minds have completely obeyed Ma Zheng, and they are all willing to follow him to fight devils, and it also saves Ma Zheng from correcting their thinking.

Now that the external threat no longer exists, the next step is naturally to train these new troops, but fortunately, these people's physical fitness is there, and the basic ability to be a soldier is already possessed, and what is lacking is only some things in military discipline and combat skills.

Ma Zheng estimated that the second attack of the little devil should be coming soon, so he must hurry up and train, otherwise he will really not have the capital to deal with the little devil at that time.

As Ma Zheng expected, the troops had just been training for less than a week, and news came from Xu Xiaolin's side that the Japanese army had moved again.

On January 27, the intelligence department again reported that a powerful group composed of two infantry brigades and an artillery brigade of the Japanese garrison in Datong had taken a train north, and had already entered the county seat of Fengzhen, apparently preparing to encircle and suppress Ma Zheng's headquarters again.

After receiving the report, Ma Zheng immediately convened a military meeting to discuss the strategy of retreating from the enemy!

The atmosphere in the conference room was extremely tense, Ma Zheng told everyone about the current situation, and then said in a deep voice: "This time the little devil is a big soldier, with a total strength of more than 3,000 people, which is equivalent to a full infantry wing, and they also carry heavy weapons, everyone will talk about how to retreat from the enemy!" ”

"Detachment leader, if you want me to say that we have no chance of winning this battle at all, it is best to transfer immediately while the little devil is not moving here." Huang Sicheng said in a deep voice.

Wang Hansen also echoed: "Yes, detachment leader, it's not that we don't have blood, but the little devil is a heavy soldier this time, and if we are tough with our strength, it will be to hit a stone with an egg." ”

Ma Zheng frowned and said: "We can't withdraw this battle, it's still the same reason before, we almost emptied the county seat of Fengzhen before, and we robbed the red sand dam last time, and the seized things may not be moved even in two days, whether it is destroyed or left to the little devils, it is an extreme pity." ”

"But we don't have a chance to win!" Huang Sicheng said in a deep voice.

"Who says there's no chance of winning?" Ma Zheng said loudly.

"It seems that the detachment leader already has a plan in mind, so hurry up and tell me how this battle should be fought?" Huang Sicheng hurriedly asked.

"You only see that the Japanese army is strong, but you don't see their disadvantage. First of all, the little devils are on an expedition, and they don't know the terrain near Hades Mountain at all, and secondly, they don't know our strength, and this battle has to be fought with these two points alone! ”

Seeing that everyone nodded in agreement, Ma Zheng pointed to the simple map on the wall and continued: "You see, there is only one road from Fengzhen to Hades Mountain for nearly 80 kilometers, and there are either mountains or hills along the way, or lush forests. So we can use these terrain advantages to block the little devils. ”

"We don't need to fight hard with the little devil, we just need to fight a shuttle and withdraw, or hide in the dark and put a cold gun, the little devil can't help us at all. In addition, we didn't capture a large number of mines, which can also come in handy, as long as we fight well, we can knock out one-third of the little devil's troops along the way. ”

"Even if you kill a third, the little devil still has two-thirds of the soldiers!" Someone whispered.

"Yes, it is true that killing a third will not make the little devil lose his combat effectiveness, but it can greatly consume the little devil's sharpness and ammunition. And I judge that the little devil will definitely use Hongshaba or Fengzhen as a logistics base this time, and when the time comes, as long as we take their logistics base, the little devil's life will be sad, although it may not be able to wipe them out, but there is no problem at all with heavy damage. Ma Zheng said confidently.