Chapter 92: The Return of the Veteran

Although people say that they have been replaced, the really busy things have just begun. After all, these people were all brought back from the devils, and there are nails that the Japanese would have planted in them, so it won't work without careful screening.

Fortunately, the people in Xu Xiaolin's intelligence department had already prepared, and as soon as they returned to Xinghe, the first thing they had to do was to take a bath and eat, and then they would be examined one by one.

This is not investigated, it is not tight, and after checking Xu Xiaolin, he found out that he was fooled, this Nimana is a prisoner of war, and most of them are farmers in the Chahar area. According to these people's accounts, they were all arrested in the Japanese concentration camp in the past two days, and then handed over to them.

Zhang Debiao and others are called a regret, there were too many people during the exchange yesterday, and they didn't pay attention to these at all. In addition, these peasants were all wearing the tattered military uniforms of the Eighth Route Army, and their faces were black and sloppy, who would have thought that these people were not soldiers. There is even a sixty-year-old man inside, and it is a shame that those Japanese grandsons can arrest such an old man.

According to preliminary statistics, less than 500 of the 1,885 "prisoners" were really prisoners of war, and the rest were out-and-out peasants. The only thing to be thankful for is that the more than 200 people who were asked to be exchanged by the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army were all replaced, because Xu Xiaolin only sent the list to the Mongolian army yesterday, and deliberately told them that he would check them one by one, so the Japanese army did not do anything bad to them.

Ma Zheng really didn't expect that the Japanese would use ordinary people to pretend to be prisoners of war, after all, the Japanese army really has no shortage of prisoners of war, and since the beginning of the war, there are not 500,000 but 300,000 soldiers who have been captured, so they really don't need to bother for this little less than 2,000.

But Ma Zheng really underestimated the wariness of the Mongolian army against him, and people already knew that a large part of his troops were obtained through the conversion of bandits and prisoners, so he would rather give him the common people than give him prisoners of war. So the whole thing seems simple, but in fact, the little devil is really painstaking, and it is precisely because of this surprise that Ma Zheng was fooled in the end.

Although he was fooled, Ma Zheng did not have the slightest anger, and his own business was worth it. 377 Japanese prisoners who had already been of little value were exchanged for so many people without losing money, and secondly, he also made a mistake with the Japanese air force on the road, and this kind of trade was still very profitable.

If we take the analogy of doing business, we can only say that the original plan was 300% profit, but now due to some changes, it has become 15%. Although it did not achieve the expected goal, it was still much higher than the average investment profit, so Ma Zheng still felt that there was no loss in this transaction.

However, thinking of being yin by the little devil, Ma Zheng was still a little unhappy in his heart. The most important thing is that these peasants are really not easy to arrange, if all of them are prisoners of war, it will be much easier to do, as long as Ma Zheng gives an order, all of them will be sent to the recruit camp for intensive training, and the recruits can be directly integrated into the army after the training is completed.

But it is a pity that only more than 500 people are real prisoners of war, and the other more than 200 people are named by the head of the headquarters, and the rest can be handed over to Ma Zheng's department.

As for those ordinary people, many of them don't know why they were arrested, and more than half of them still have parents, wives and children waiting for them to go back! If the heart is not here, it is naturally unwilling to stay and serve the Suicha base area.

Fortunately, a small number of the more than 1,300 ordinary people are unconcerned, and these people are either lonely or their whole family has been killed by the little devils, so they are all willing to follow Ma Zheng to fight the devils. Of course, Ma Zheng was not polite, and immediately ordered this part of the people to be gathered and prepared to receive recruit training.

The remaining 800 people are family-oriented, and most of them are unwilling to stay! I want to go home every day, so Ma Zheng hasn't figured out how to deal with these people for the time being.

It is obviously inappropriate to let these people go, first of all, there is not a single big son on this group of people, and all the valuable things on their bodies have been looted by the Japanese before they come, why should they go back to their hometown? Although Xinghe is only about 150 kilometers away from Zhangjiakou, it is impossible to walk back without five or six days on foot.

Besides, although it is not freezing at this time, the north is still not warm in May, and people can also be woken up in the middle of the night, so letting these people go is undoubtedly agreeing to send them to death.

The most important thing is that from Xinghe to the east to Zhangjiakou, the road is full of Japanese territory, and there are devils' strongholds and sentry posts everywhere. The answer is obviously no, what the Japanese lack most now is the puppet army and free labor.

Even if the Japanese army did not intervene to stop them, the bosses of the Japanese-funded companies along the road would not leave these good laborers from their own territory safely, whether they were using pits, blinds, abductions, or deception, or even directly armed to kidnap and beat them with sticks, they would have to leave them behind, and letting them go would be tantamount to sending them to a dead end.

The Suicha base area was very dissatisfied with this transaction, and the Japanese army was also unhappy, originally thinking that it would be best to clean up the troops they were responsible for receiving once. As a result, they were overshadowed, 7 of the 36 planes were shot down, and 2 of the other fell on the way back.

As a result, Lieutenant General Hasunuma, who received the report, not only dropped the teacup this time, but also flipped the table and scolded all the officers, including the chief of staff, Ishimoto Yin, and the three major officers.

Ma Zheng's bad mood did not last long, and just as he was about to send the two hundred people needed by the headquarters to Los Angeles, the two veteran regiments under the command of the headquarters that had promised to be transferred to the Suicha base area arrived.

Although the soldiers of these two regiments were dressed in tatters, and their weapons and equipment were very poor, most of the weapons and equipment were old sleeves and Hanyang-made, only a small number of medium and formal ones, and even fewer light and heavy machine guns, and no grenadiers and mortars at all.

But the spiritual temperament of these people is far from being comparable to that of ordinary soldiers, even if they are in tattered clothes and rudimentary weapons and equipment, they exude a kind of momentum that looks at death as home. It seems that with just one order, these people can go up the sword mountain and go down to the sea of fire.

This is the veteran, the veteran does not die!

This is the soldier Ma Zheng needs, and this is also the veteran he is looking forward to.

Without saying a word, Ma Zheng immediately asked the more than 5,000 veterans to change their clothes, and the cotton clothes and weapons and equipment were all in accordance with the standards of other units in the Suicha base area. In addition, Ma Zheng of the two regiments supplemented one of them to Lu Ming, and the remaining regiment was mixed with the 200 and 201 regiments, and the extra soldiers were under the command of Wu Xiuda.

With the addition of these veterans, Ma Zheng is more confident. These veterans are all veterans of the Red Army who participated in the Long March, and they all came out of the sea of corpses and blood. Don't look inconspicuous in ordinary times, but as long as you change into advanced weapons and equipment, and then strengthen it a little in advanced training methods, the combat effectiveness is absolutely amazing.

Therefore, Ma Zheng ordered all the infantry regiments not to think about fighting for the time being, to train these veterans first, and then fight the little devils fiercely when they have formed combat effectiveness.