[The Iron Blood King of the Anti-Japanese Army] Chapter Seventy-Eight: Play a big one

"The brigade commander, the political commissar, and the head of the headquarters are coming to inspect what we are going to do?" Huang Sicheng asked.

"Actually, it's best not to do anything, what the leaders want to see is a real Duqi Brigade, if we deliberately prepare, it will be easy to do bad things?" Yun Jian said in a deep voice.

"No, not only do you have to prepare, but you also have to prepare a big surprise for them!" Ma Zheng spoke.

"Surprise? One more battle? Yun Jian asked with a frown.

"No, the troops have just finished the battle, although this battle is relatively easy, but it is still very tiring to run hundreds of kilometers long distance, so it is not suitable to continue to attack!"

"And what surprise are you talking about, brigade commander?" Yun Jian asked again.

looked at the crowd, and Ma Zheng suddenly spit out two words in his mouth: "Military parade!" ”

"Military parade?"

"Yes, it's a military parade! After mixing, our base area now has a full 10 regiments of troops, including infantry, cavalry, artillery, engineer and other arms, so I want to make a military parade and let the head of the headquarters see our military appearance, what do you think? ”

Huang Sicheng frowned and said: "Wouldn't it be a little too hasty, many of our troops have just been incorporated and have not been trained, so is it too Meng Lang to let them participate in the military parade?" ”

Ma Zheng said: "Those newly incorporated ones are naturally not right, but our old troops definitely do not have such problems." Moreover, the military parade ceremony was not too big, and it was still possible to transfer more than a dozen battalions from the base areas with the battalion as a unit. ”

Yun Jian thought for a while and said: "This idea is not bad, but how to choose this venue, if you want to hold a military parade, the venue will definitely not work." ”

Ma Zheng smiled and said: "We have now occupied Jining City, I think this military parade will be held in Jining!" ”

Wang Hansen is an old smoker, and he often keeps his hands on the dry tobacco pouch. Everyone said for so long, he didn't say a word, and when he heard that Ma Zheng was going to hold a military parade in Jining, he immediately took a few puffs of dry smoke and said: "Brigade commander, isn't it a bit swaggering to hold a military parade in Jining City, it will be troublesome to let the devils focus on and find out our strength, and the next anti-encirclement and suppression will not be as easy as this time." ”

Ma Zheng said solemnly: "Comrades, we are already very ostentatious now. Since the first time we fought Xinghe County, every battle we fought was not unforgettable. We are the only army among China's millions of troops that can completely annihilate a wing of devils, and we are also the only army that can capture more than 10,000 Japanese puppet soldiers in a war. ”

"In my opinion, if you don't fight next time, if the little devil comes again, it will not be a unit, but a brigade, a division, or even a large corps of two or three divisions at a time. So no matter whether we are really swaggering this time or not, the next time we fight the little devils, it will definitely be a river of blood. ”

Seeing that everyone agreed with his point of view, Ma Zheng continued: "I held this military parade not to erect a monument for my Ma Zheng's merits, and my Ma Zheng doesn't need this. I did this mainly for two reasons: on the one hand, I wanted the head of the headquarters to see our military appearance. On the other hand, it is also a demonstration to the devils, so that they can take care of us a little. ”

"Brigade commander, if we really want to carry out this military parade, then the secrecy work must be done well, and we must not let the devils find out our details!" Xu Xiaolin suggested.

"Of course, this is true, but it is not easy for the little devil to find out the details of us, we now claim to the outside world that there are only two regiments plus 4 directly subordinate battalions, and the total number of the brigade is less than 5,000 people. But in fact, we have more than 17,000 people, and this time the parade is based on battalions, and there are only three or four thousand people in several battalions. Ma Zheng said with a smile.

Huang Sicheng smiled and said: "Speaking of this, I really think it's a little unreal, think about what we looked like when we first came to Chanan in December last year, and the lost dogs all looked up to us." Look at the present, 4 infantry regiments, 3 cavalry regiments, in addition to the guard regiment, artillery regiment, engineer regiment, special operations brigade, automobile transport team, field hospital, good guys, who would dare to believe that this is the unit we pulled up in half a year? ”

Wang Hansen also said: "Although it is the ability to pull so many troops, but what I value most is our record, think about how many times we have fought with the devil in the past six months, regardless of whether the squadron or the brigade or the wing team comes, and whether the commander is a major general or a major general, we have not taken advantage of the slightest advantage." Let's fight the county town heavily guarded by the devils, and we will fight it one by one, and look at the guys in our hands, who can kill the Eighth Route Army and his divisions. ”

Ma Zheng smiled and said, "Okay, don't talk about this, people who don't know still think you are bragging here!" I will now arrange the task, and the political commissar will handle the affairs of this unit, and select 6 infantry battalions, 3 cavalry battalions, 2 artillery battalions, and 1 engineer battalion, a total of 12 battalions, and all of them will be veterans who have been trained in the new method. ”

"No problem!"

"Hansen, your logistics department is responsible for providing four thousand new uniforms and changing them into for the troops participating in the parade. This Buddha relies on gold clothes and clothes, and the military parade must have the appearance of a military parade, and the military uniform must be unified. ”

"No problem, this time there are many military uniforms of devils who have been captured, as long as they are put in the quilt factory to dye it." Wang Hansen replied.

"That's good!"

Then Ma Zheng continued: "There are also problems of food, ammunition and accommodation that also need to be solved by your logistics department, and any difficulties can be raised now." ”

"Food and ammunition are enough, but the problem of accommodation is really difficult to solve, although there are barracks in Jining City, but the previous garrisons of the little devils were all based on squadrons, so that barracks only has more than 400 beds, if we hold a military parade here, there are at least 4,000 soldiers, plus the troops responsible for security and other work, there are at least 5,000 people, where can I find so many places for them to live in at once?"

"How many marching tents do we have?" Ma Zheng asked again.

"There were about 500 of them seized before, but I didn't think I needed them, so they were all buried on Hades Mountain."

"Get up all of them, five hundred tents can accommodate five thousand people, plus the barracks in the city, that's enough!" Ma Zheng said.

"Well, I'll do it after the meeting is over!" Wang Hansen said.

"Xu Hu, Xu Xiaolin, the security work will be done by your intelligence department in cooperation with the guard regiment, especially to do a good job in air defense early warning, beware of little devil aircraft bombing. You must know that this time it is the two leaders of the Eighth Route Army who came, so the guard work must not be sloppy. ”

"Yes, mission guaranteed!"

"Commissar, do you have anything else to add?" Ma Zheng asked.

Yun Jian nodded, and then said solemnly: "Comrades, the content of today's meeting is very important, and we must do a good job of keeping it confidential after we go back, and no one can reveal it." ”

Ma Zheng said again: "What the political commissar said makes sense, all work can be done in private, and no one can leak secrets, otherwise military law will be engaged!" ”

"Yes!"

"It's decided, I'll go and send a report to the boss, and you can go down to prepare for the parade ceremonies! Tomorrow, we will have a military parade and training, and I will personally check it and dismiss the meeting! ”

After receiving Ma Zheng's telegram of invitation, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army immediately responded, and the head of the headquarters decided to leave for Jining on 23 April, and at the same time, some military and political officers of the Jin-Chahar-Hebei Military Region of the 129th Division, 386th Brigade, 385th Brigade, 115th Division, and 120th Division were also present, and asked them to do a good job in this military parade.

After reading the call back from the headquarters, Ma Zheng was also quite surprised, he thought that the headquarters would definitely agree to this military parade, but he didn't expect that the headquarters would organize a group to brush up monsters. After thinking about it for a long time, it seems that the headquarters wants to set up a stage and let him, a winning general, sing a good show, and want to take this opportunity to boost morale.

Thinking of this, Ma Zheng smiled and pondered: "These veterans and old handsomes are destined to be shocked this time, I hope they won't be full of glasses when the time comes." ”