"Yes!" Liu Qi saluted solemnly and turned around to prepare for the opening of his supplementary brigade. A soldier who doesn't want to be a general is not a good soldier. An officer who does not want to be promoted is also not a good officer. can lead a brigade alone, even Liu Qi, who has excellent psychological quality, can't help but feel excited.

With the structure in mind, the rest is easy to do. Gao Quan reported to the Military Commission, upgraded the numbers of the battalions directly under his command to regiments, and then transferred Zhao Ziming's personnel relations to the 500th Army. These are all trivial matters, as long as they do not ask for money, guns, or establishment, those bigwigs of the Military Commission do not even study them, and directly approve them. As a matter of fact, apart from the commander-in-chief of the guerrillas in the three provinces, I am afraid that most people in the Military Commission do not know that there is such a guerrilla force as the Second Column of the Anti-Japanese Decisive Army that is loyal to the party-state.

In the first Battle of Changsha, although Gao Quan's troops suffered relatively large casualties and received real benefits. The heavy artillery obtained from the 6th Division was just right for Van Berlin's artillery battalion to be upgraded to an artillery regiment. Although it is organized into a regiment, the artillery is still a little less, but if you add some light and heavy mortars, it is basically the same. The captured war horses also happened to upgrade the cavalry battalion into a cavalry regiment. As for the difference between the other troops, we will slowly replenish it in the future.

The 500 Army was busy expanding its army and training its troops, but the situation of conscription was not optimistic. After the Battle of Lanfeng in 1938, in order to get rid of the pursuit of the Japanese army, the Nationalist Government ordered the First War Zone to blow up the mouth of the garden, causing the Yellow River to be diverted and millions of people displaced. Since then, for several years in a row, floods, droughts, and locust plagues have ravaged Henan in turn, and the people of the entire Central Plains have no place to live, and have since fallen into the abyss of suffering.

After taking office as the commander of the border areas of the four provinces, Tang Enbo not only did not think of ways to improve the people's livelihood, but instead wantonly conscripted troops and imposed heavy taxes on the hard-hit areas in southern Henan. The military discipline of its troops is extremely poor, and incidents such as robbery and murder that plague the township occur from time to time. The people's identification with the army of the Nationalist Government fell to the lowest point, and it was rumored among the people at that time: "There are four evils in Henan: water and drought locust soup!" "They all equate Townenbo's army with the three major natural disasters.

Although the 500 Army did not pay heavy taxes in the Tongbai area, it did not introduce any policies that benefited the people. It's not that Gao Quan doesn't want to do it, it's that he doesn't have the time and energy. The 500 Army has just arrived in Tongbai, and he has not yet understood the local customs and customs, and the troops are eager to expand their recruitment, where does he have the brain to think so much?

It is precisely because of the good deeds done by Tang Enbo that the 500 Army and the army under Tang Enbo wear the same military uniforms, and they are also Commander Tang's subordinates, and the people naturally have no good impression of the 500 Army. Those who took the initiative to join the army really couldn't survive, but as long as there was a way to survive, no one would join the army. There are quite a lot of recruitment points set up by the 500 army, but there are not many soldiers who are actually recruited.

Gao Quan was worried about conscription all day long, and the brigade commanders and regiment commanders under him also worried with him, but none of the leaders of the 500 Army thought about the root of the problem. "Water and drought locust soup" is a folk rumor, and of course Gao Quan, a lieutenant general who is high in a temple, can't hear this kind of discussion, even if he knows some news, no one will go to his military seat to learn words.

On this day, Gao Quan was looking at the recruitment report in a daze, Hong Yingying was embroidering next to him, and Huiqin and Tang Wenjuan were learning to take pictures in the courtyard. I don't know when it started, but the red peony suddenly began to like embroidery. Gao Quan asked her privately, and according to Director Hong, embroidery could make her more gentle and virtuous, and more feminine. I don't know who taught her all this heresy, but this woman really believes it. However, it is better to hold an embroidery needle than to hold a throwing knife and pistol all day long, and Gao Quan went with her.

Seeing that it is about to enter the wax moon, it is not far from the New Year. Every time the women of the family remembered the mountain climb and the delicious food they ate at Orion's house, they would talk about it for a long time. Gao Quan also missed the lunch that day, and asked Jin Hu to take two people to find the Orion this morning, hoping that the Orion would send some mountain goods and prey to his military headquarters, and it would be better to have a taste of game during the New Year. If there is a chance, it is best to let Orion's wife come to the military department to cook.

As soon as the door opened, the golden tiger walked in. After Xiao Cai went to the supplementary brigade as the regiment commander, the guard company was the head of the Golden Tiger. I can't say which is better, the commander of the guard company or the commander of the supplementary regiment in the military department, but as the commander of the regiment, there is always a better future, right? The regiment commander is always much better than the company commander! Gao Quan is convinced that he has chosen a bright road for Xiao Cai.

Well? Gao Quan looked up coldly, and was stunned. Golden Tiger, what's wrong? I saw that tiger-like little face was iron-blue and iron-blue, and the green tendons on the neck were bulging high, who was provoking this child? Gao Quan wondered, if the identity of the Golden Tiger was released, even if it was those brigade commanders, no one would provoke him, who would be so short-sighted and make the Golden Tiger angry like this?

"Golden Tiger, what's wrong?" Gao Quan's question made Hong Yingying, who was concentrating on embroidering a big red peony, also raise her head.

"Military seat, Director Hong. I went to Yang Orion's house, and Yang Orion couldn't send us prey! As he spoke, his eyes turned a little red as if they were about to erupt into flames.

"Why? Did you say we would give money? Before Gao Quan could speak, Hong Yingying spoke first. This is in the residence, not in public, and Director Hong is not so particular.

"What happened to Yang Orion?" Gao Quan still saw that something was wrong. Based on his last observation, Yang Orion and his family were both honest mountain people, and the impression left by his gang last time was not bad. Jin Hu went this time to take care of his business, and with Yang Orion's character, he shouldn't refuse.

"Yang Orion's wife, mother and children are gone, Yang Orion is also seriously injured, he can't go hunting!"

"Ahh This exclamation was made by Hong Yingying, Hui Qin, and Tang Wenjuan together. The two of them were learning to take pictures in the courtyard, and when they saw Jin Hu coming back, they also came over to take a look, but they didn't expect to hear such a shocking news as soon as they entered the door. Gao Quan has seen too much life and death, and even though he is still chuckling in his heart, he can still calm down, just staring straight at the golden tiger and waiting for the following.

"The tax collector sent by Commander Tang is the adjutant of the Shangchawang who has been here, leading people into the mountains to collect taxes in Yang Orion's village. Some of his subordinates took a fancy to Yang Orion's wife, and it happened that Yang Orion was not at home, so these boys raped the woman. The old lady came up to stop it, and the guys started beating the old man. When Yang Orion returned home, he found that his wife had hanged herself, and her mother was also dead. Yang Orion was angry, and went to find these guys desperately, but he was broken by this group of brutes. When he returned home, his son also fell to his death from a cliff. ”

"Brother Quan!" Hong Yingying was furious when she heard this, and she stood up and took out the gun as soon as she "poofed", "I'm going to slaughter these inhuman beasts now!" ”