The officers and men of the Central Army, the Sichuan Army, and the Jinsui Army who had been rescued independently were concentrated on the open ground in front of Xiaotangba Village.

Han Ru did not agree with Tang Guo's decision to take these soldiers away, but Tang Guo was the captain of the team, responsible for taking back Jiang Fengyi, and was a member of the Theater Commander's Department. As an agent of the military command, although she has a different opinion on this, she will not show it.

Jiang Fengyi lived in Xiaotangba Village for more than 10 days, and naturally became more and more interested in the independent camp. You must know that he is the chief of staff of a lieutenant general, and he is also a figure who has been fighting horses for decades, and he only needs to observe a few days to make a correct judgment on the combat effectiveness of a unit.

Although the independent battalion is a small unit in the army sequence of the Nationalist Government, and there is not even a regular number, he was very shocked by its strong combat effectiveness, and in the past few days, he has been studying the battle history of the independent battalion to rob the military column and successfully return to the base area. After careful study, he found that if the independent battalion had been replaced with a regular division of the Central Army, he would probably not have achieved such a result.

From this, he came to a conclusion, that is, Liu Tianshu's independent battalion, even if it fought with a division of the Central Army, it might not be defeated.

Of course, Liu Tianshu's independent battalion, in terms of its number and equipment, is a reinforced battalion, if not a regiment, with six companies of infantry alone, a machine gun company, and a mortar squad.

After returning to the base area, Liu Tianshu's mortar squad had been expanded into an artillery company because it had captured two 92 infantry guns and four 60 mortars.

Based on the above understanding, Jiang Fengyi was not optimistic about Tang Guo persuading those soldiers who originally belonged to the **** sequence to follow him back to the war zone.

You must know that these people were tortured at the hands of the devils, and they were almost forcibly transported back to Japan by the little devils, and they were full of unforgettable hatred for the Japanese devils.

Now they have been rescued, but Shangfeng wants them to return to the war zone, but when they fall into the hands of devils, where are the troops in the war zone, and where are their original troops.

Besides, there is a distance of 800 kilometers from here to the war zone, and the weapons in the hands of these people are still temporarily distributed by the independent battalion, if they want to return, maybe the independent battalion will take these weapons back, and if you let these unarmed soldiers follow the squad through the blockade of the devils, it is better to send them to death.

Tang Guo strode to the front, raised his head, glanced at these warriors with his eyes, and said loudly: "Brothers, you have suffered, you have been wronged. However, now it is okay, the war zone knows that you have managed to get out of danger, and sent me to pick up my brothers and go home, and your comrades-in-arms and your commanders are concerned about you......"

I have to say that Tang Guo's words are quite inflammatory, he is agitating clever words above, and some soldiers below can't help wiping tears, but then some companions whispered: "Let's go back to the war zone, it's not that you want us to work for them, it's not ambiguous to beat the devil Lao Tzu, but those who are officials, when the devil comes, they run faster than the rabbit, otherwise Lao Tzu will not fall into the hands of the devil." ”

"That is, we have been locked up by the devil for half a year, how could they ever think of sending someone to rescue, and now that we have rescued us, they remembered us at this time, hum, Lao Tzu no longer believes their nonsense."

"Yes, if you fight devils, you have to join a unit like an independent battalion, you see, there is only one battalion, but a brigade of devils is beaten back, and if you fight devils with such a unit, you will feel comfortable even if you die."

The soldiers below began to talk in a low voice, especially those soldiers from local forces such as the Sichuan Army and the Northwest Army, and they were even more ashamed of Tang Guo's words at this time.

Especially the Sichuan army, out of Sichuan to resist the Japanese is the most active, many troops wear straw sandals to go to the front, but when they arrive in Shanxi, they are not to be seen, the supply is not not to mention, and they are pushed around by those big officials, and finally Commander Li takes them in, but after the battle of Taierzhuang, many troops were scattered, and they also fell into the hands of devils.

At this time, the captain Tang sent by the war zone asked him to go back to the war zone with him and go to his turtle son's.

Seeing that there was a lot of discussion below, Tang Guo couldn't get off the stage, Liu Tianshu walked up to the stage at this time, looked at everyone, pressed his hands weakly, and said loudly: "Brothers, everyone be quiet first, listen to me." ”

The soldiers in the audience immediately quieted down, and their eyes were all looking at Liu Tianshu, it was Cheng Zhihua, and a pair of eyes were also staring at Liu Tianshu.

"Brothers, I know that each of you is a man, and you won't frown when you fight devils, and I also know that you are full of endless hatred for little devils, and I am the same as you. The little devils are the mortal enemies of our Chinese nation, and we will not give up until we drive them out of China, even if we sacrifice our own lives in order to achieve this goal. Just now, Commander Tang said that he was ordered by the Theater Commander's Department to take everyone back to their original units, and I personally expressed my support for the theater's decision. However, everyone also knows that the headquarters of the commander of the theater is at least 800 kilometers away from here, and it is full of devils' defense areas. Of course, as a soldier, as long as it is a devil, it is not the same where to fight, besides, whether it is the Eighth Route Army or the Central Army, they are all the military sequence of the national government, and they are all a family, so as the host, I do not keep guests, nor do I chase guests. I discussed with Chief Tang, and if I am willing to go back to the war zone with him, we will say goodbye, and if I am willing to stay and fight devils with my Liu Tianshu, we welcome it. Here, I just want to say one thing, as long as everyone really fights devils, no matter which unit they are in, they are all heroes that I Liu Tianshu respect. Sir Tang, if you are not like this, if you are willing to go back to the war zone, please ask them to stand on the left, and if you are willing to stay, please ask them to stand on the right. ”

In the end, Liu Tianshu's eyes looked at Tang Guo, whose face was a little pale.

In Tang Guo's opinion, as long as he offered to take them back to the war zone, these people would naturally cheer, after all, the independent battalion was a unit that didn't even have an official number.

But who knew that he made a speech, and even said that after everyone went back, they would be incorporated into the Central Army, but looking at the reaction below, it was very cold.

At this time, listening to Liu Tianshu's suggestion, he had to nod.

So the more than 400 soldiers in the audience began to choose freely according to the instructions, and after a while, the results came out, Cheng Zhihua's Central Army Company, 20 soldiers chose to stay, while the Sichuan Army and the Northwest Army, but four-fifths of the people chose to stay, the Jin Sui Army was a little better, and half of the soldiers were willing to follow Tang Guo back.

Seeing a team of nearly five hundred people, only one hundred and fifty people were willing to follow him back to the war zone, Tang Guo's face suddenly became even more ugly, but at this moment, Liu Tianshu's smiling face that made him annoying came over again.

"Chief Tang, don't blame the brothers, after all, this place is too far away from the war zone. Or, if you go back, it's really hard to explain to Shangfeng, there are still more than a thousand rescued villagers over there, you take them back? ”

When Tang Guo heard this, a fire rose in his heart, but this is Liu Tianshu's territory, besides, this Liu Tianshu who looks treacherous and smiling, but he is a ruthless character who is not even a little devil, even if he plays the brand of the war zone, I am afraid he will not pay attention to it.

At this time, he couldn't help but endure the anger in his heart when he thought of Han Ru's reminder and Jiang Shenzao's words.

"Thank you, Battalion Commander Liu, you also know that when we return, we will have to pass through the devil's defense area, this person has a big goal, these laborers will stay with you for the time being, you can think of sending them back in the future." His target is those rescued soldiers, as for the group of laborers who have no combat effectiveness, isn't it a trouble to bring it with you?

"Okay, listen to Chief Tang, my superiors instructed me to fully cooperate with Chief Tang, and do what you say." Liu Tianshu smiled harmlessly.

But his smile, in Tang Guo's opinion, was extremely treacherous.

The next thing was naturally easy to do, Tang Guo reorganized the officers and soldiers who were willing to follow him back to the war zone into a company, and under Jiang Fengyi's suggestion, Cheng Zhihua served as the company commander.

After those officers and soldiers made their choice, Cheng Zhihua secretly complained in his heart.

His Central Army is not all from a unit, and those who chose to stay this time are all combat backbones such as artillery and machine gunners, while the other miscellaneous units that choose to follow the squad back are basically company and platoon commanders with one officer and a half position, so to speak, more than half of the company he reorganized are original company and platoon-level officers, and most of the rest are veterans.

However, since Tang Guo and Jiang Shenzao decided to let him be the company commander, he had no choice but to take these people aside.

When he carefully examined the people who followed him back, his heart was half cold again.

It turned out that when returning to Fuya Mountain from Linheji, Liu Tianshu allocated some guns to each company, because they were all rifles, so these guns were basically distributed to those soldiers, and most of those soldiers chose to stay, so the result was that the company he formed was only 30 38 big covers, with an average of 40 bullets per gun.

Tang Guo was dumbfounded when he heard that this army only had such weapons and ammunition.

There is only one platoon of the squad he leads, but this platoon is equipped with all American-style equipment, and when he crossed the devil's defense area, because there were intelligence officers to respond, he did not have contact with the devils.

There are many people and big goals, once the action is known by the devil, how can this equipment fight with the devil.

When Tang Guo was having a big headache, Jiang Fengyi and Liu Tianshu were talking in a room.

"General Jiang, this time you go back with Captain Tang, I personally think it is very dangerous. Once the devil knows your identity, he will definitely encircle the squad at all costs, and with Captain Tang's squad alone, I don't think it is possible to force through the devil's defense area. Liu Tianshu looked at Jiang Fengyi and said worriedly. (To be continued.) )