[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 506: Strength (Ask for subscriptions, ask for monthly passes, ask for everything!) ）

August 1, Jingyanggang.

Now Jingyanggang is no longer the scene of the broken temple hut and rotten mountain when I first came, after nearly a month of construction, earth-shaking changes have taken place here. The ruined temple has been completely repaired, and although there is still not much incense, it has regained a trace of its former glory from the outside. In addition, many adobe houses were built around the ruined temple, and many caves were dug in the back mountain to serve as warehouses.

It's just that there are not many troops on the mountain at this time, and due to the skyrocketing number of soldiers in a short period of time, Jingyanggang, a place famous for fighting tigers, can no longer accommodate so many troops. Therefore, Ma Zheng ordered Liang Shangren and Lei Zhenhua to each take a regiment to various towns and villages in Yanggu County to develop. So when Xie Wensheng, Xu Weiguo and others arrived in Jingyanggang, there were only less than 4,000 people left in Jingyanggang.

Looking at these officers in front of him, Ma Zheng felt a burst of pride. It was with these few people that he Ma Zheng had created a small piece of the world in Shandong. Although it is not yet known whether it will be able to cope with the next frenzied attack of the Japanese army, the results are real.

Clearing his throat, Ma Zheng said in a deep voice: "Comrades, today is the first time we have held a conference of this scale since we entered Shandong, I will first introduce to you some of the principles and policies of the Party Central Committee in recent times, due to the lack of information, so everyone is not very clear about some of the policies and guidelines made by the Party Central Committee in recent times, but this is no wonder everyone, because the conditions are difficult, it is impossible to meet the condition that every company is equipped with a radio station, the Party Central Committee held in Yan'an."

Ma Zheng talked endlessly for nearly an hour, telling the cadres present about some of the new large-scale meetings of the party Central Committee since the end of June and some of the decisions made at the meetings. At the same time, he also instilled in them some ideas of loving the party and the country, and at the same time ordered these military and political cadres present to take notes and convey what he said to the grassroots units after returning to their respective units.

As a professional soldier in later generations, Ma Zheng is well aware of the importance of ideological construction. Although Ma Zheng did not like to see Lao Chiang, it is undeniable that Lao Chiang's political achievements are still very good, not only nominally completing the reunification of the divided China, but also completing a series of reforms, and his political skills are by no means much worse than that of any politician.

But it was such a capable person who was defeated by Mao and a group of troops not much better than Hanako a few years later, why is this?

The reason for this is that one is devoted to ideological construction while grasping the military level, while the other is only one-sidedly grasping the military and grasping the armed forces. In the end, Chiang's 4.3 million well-equipped and combat-strong troops were defeated by the 1.3 million People's Liberation Army, and ******** a beautiful battle to cross the river directly wiped out Chiang's reliance.

The military infrastructure and ideological building of the troops complement each other, and only a thinking army is a real army, which can burst out with unparalleled combat effectiveness and make the enemy tremble. Therefore, starting from the Suicha Military Region, he demanded that every military and political chief must have a high ideological consciousness and be able to keep up with the footsteps of the party Central Committee and Ma Zheng.

Then Ma Zheng's voice changed, and he continued to say loudly: "Comrades, it has been almost two years since we entered Shandong, and great achievements have been made in the development of the army in the past two months. Although it was not possible to go head-to-head with the large Japanese army, it was not much of a problem to clean up some local garrisons. Now let's talk about our respective family backgrounds, and let me, as a leader, have a bottom in my heart. ”

As soon as Ma Zheng's words fell, Xie Wensheng got up and said: "Report to the commander, our department has 5,509 combat troops, except for the 400 people brought from the military region, the rest are all recruits recruited in Shandong recently. However, our unit now lacks weapons and equipment, and the whole army has a total of 2,766 long and short guns, 39 light and heavy machine guns, 12 artillery pieces, and more than 1,600 people without weapons. ”

Xie Wensheng's department was developed in Dong'e County, and after several months of development, the anti-Japanese situation in Dong'e County rose rapidly. Comparatively speaking, it is no worse than Ma Zheng in Yanggu County.

Of course, there are many reasons for this, but the most important point is that the geographical location of Dong'e County is not as important as Yanggu County. Therefore, the defenders of Dong'e County only have one reinforced squadron, and with the fully equipped infantry battalion in Xie Wensheng's hands, it is not like playing to clean up a second-line garrison of little devils. If it weren't for the fear of attracting the attention of the Japanese military high-ups, Xie Wensheng would have wanted to end up a bullshit county in the first few days after he arrived in Dong'e County.

"Very good, I'm very relieved on your side, after all, the infantry battalion in your hand is the trump card of our army, not to mention the small garrison squadron in Dong'e County, even a garrison brigade may not be able to withstand the attack of your department."

After speaking, Ma Zheng turned around and asked, "Weiguo, how is it over there, I heard that your side has encountered a lot of difficulties in development?" ”

Xu Weiguo got up and said: "The difficulty is not counted, that is, the strength of the Japanese army over there in Shen County is relatively strong, and a large part of the landlords and gentry over there have taken refuge in the Japanese, either openly or secretly, and these people directly control more than half of the land and population of Shen County, so they have caused us a lot of trouble." But we've started to clean up those people, and it's working. In order to combat the arrogance of the Japanese army in Shen County, our department just yesterday carried out an attack on Shen County, although in the end due to the early arrival of Japanese reinforcements and failed, but it greatly shocked the local puppet army and traitor squires. ”

Ma Zheng nodded and said: "Shen County has an important geographical location, and there are a lot of mineral resources, so the little devil has arranged an infantry brigade there that is not full. In addition, Shen County is very close to Liaocheng, and it is inevitable that you will encounter difficulties, so let's talk about how many people you have now? ”

Xu Weiguo immediately replied: "Our unit has a total of 4,471 combat troops, of which more than 3,000 are recruits who were recruited later. There is no shortage in the weapons and equipment of our unit, and two days ago we hit a military train carrying arms by little devils, and we have made a lot of equipment. Now our division, in addition to a full-fledged infantry regiment, has a guard battalion, an artillery battalion and a machine-gun battalion. ”

After Xu Weiguo finished speaking, Ma Zheng said: "Very good, I am very satisfied with the development of your department to this extent!" ”

The third speaker was Xu Haifeng, as the supreme commander of the Wolf Tooth Special Operations Brigade, Xu Haifeng can be said to hold the trump card in Ma Zheng's hands.

"Report to the commander, since our saber and wolf-tooth special brigade arrived in Shandong, there has been no new blood to join, let alone the update of weapons and equipment. However, our department assisted Comrade Wang Dechuan in setting up his own intelligence departments in the major county towns in Liaocheng, as well as in Jining, Jinan, and other places. ”

Ma Zheng smiled and said, "Hehehe, I've wronged you." There is no way, the objective situation is like this now, and when it stabilizes, it will refer to the Suicha Military Region to set up a special forces training base to replenish fresh blood for you. ”

Then Ma Zheng continued: "Okay, now let's talk about my situation here, after this period of development, my development here is very good, and now there are nearly 10,000 combat troops, almost all of which are newly recruited after we arrived in Shandong." Of these, 5,000 were given to us by the local Daomen, and the remaining 3,000 were rescued by us, a large part of whom had previously been soldiers of the Kuomintang Third Army, and now they have voluntarily joined us. These 3,000 people are the main force of our fighting force here, and they have formed a certain combat effectiveness. ”

"However, the situation is similar to that of Comrade Xie Wensheng, and now I am seriously short of weapons, and there are only more than 5,000 guns and 30 artillery pieces in the army of nearly 10,000 people, which cannot meet the needs of the battle at all." (To be continued.) )