Ma Zheng's words once again caused an uproar among everyone, and now everyone has only one thought, that is, the Japanese army is too strong, can this war still last?

Everyone's worries were written on their faces, and this time Ma Zheng did not ignore them, but changed his voice and said: "The Japanese are indeed very strong, but are they invincible?" No, the Japanese army is also human, they are not gods, they also have weaknesses! ”

"Battalion commander, then tell me what weaknesses the Japanese devils have, and we can know if we know!" Wu Xiuda said loudly.

Ma Zheng nodded and said: "First of all, the Japanese army is not good at mountain warfare, and in the special terrain of mountainous areas, the combat effectiveness and specialties of the Japanese army must be greatly reduced, or even none. Most of the Japanese infantry wore suede shoes, and it was indeed good to walk on flat roads, but climbing mountains in leather shoes was not as light as our cloth shoes, and their athletic ability would drop sharply. ”

"In addition, their artillery is difficult to move and find positions, tanks are impossible to drive up hills, and aircraft are not very useful. Therefore, it is very advantageous for us to ambush in the mountains, as evidenced by the victory at Pingxingguan. ”

Then Ma Zheng continued: "Secondly, the Japanese army is arrogant and looks down on our combat effectiveness at all, and everyone should understand the truth that the arrogant army will be defeated. Because of the light enemy, they often do not pay attention to reconnaissance and vigilance, do not like to do fortifications, and when they start a battle, they first let the planes and artillery show their powers, and when it comes to the onslaught, their infantry does not even like to occupy the position, but only rests in the shade of the ditch. Such an enemy, of course, facilitates our attack. ”

"Another point is that the Japanese army not only has to rely on the rear to transport ammunition, but also has to rely on Japan to send food. Their rear line has been stretched thousands of miles away, and under such circumstances, if their rear line is cut off, their difficulties can be imagined, and they can be put in a dilemma. ”

"In order to avoid their artillery and aircraft, after the battle begins, they must quickly approach the enemy, engage in hand-to-hand combat, and charge continuously, so that the enemy's artillery is not easy to fire, and even their own troops will suffer if they want to be released"

After listening to Ma Zheng's words, everyone's expressions were relieved, it turned out that the Japanese army also had so many weaknesses, it seemed that this battle was still fought.

During the two-hour course, Ma Zheng talked about the strengths and weaknesses of the Japanese army, and all the officers and soldiers who listened to the lecture changed from resistance and dissatisfaction at the beginning to relish at this time, and Ma Zheng just wanted them to know what the real Japanese army was.

In the next few days, Ma Zheng personally led all the officers and men to conduct training every day, and although the clothes of this unit were messy and looked like a rabble from a distance, after a few days of training, the mental outlook of the unit changed greatly.

On the one hand, this is because Ma Zheng's training methods are advanced, and secondly, the quality of these soldiers themselves is not bad. The people brought by Ma Zheng are all elites who have been baptized by the Long March, while Wu Xiuda and others are bandits all the year round, and fighting is their capital to eat, so with a little training, they can become an elite with not weak combat effectiveness.

However, what Ma Zheng needs is elite soldiers, an elite army that cannot be dragged or broken. Although these fighters are in decent physical fitness, they are still far from what he requires. These trainings are just the beginning, mainly to strengthen physical strength and endurance exercises, and then the training of individual skills.

The training is very tiring and hard, many people are being drilled to cry for their fathers and mothers, and some weak-willed bandits even have plans to become deserters, but Ma Zheng personally appears on the training ground every day to set an example for everyone. In this way, all the warriors finally began to receive this devilish training from the bottom of their hearts.

The only thing that makes the soldiers happy is that since the reorganization of the troops, the quality of the food has finally improved significantly. The three meals a day are dry, and in the morning it is a white flour bun with thick millet porridge. Lunch is a big stewed vegetable steamed bun, which is cut with white flower fat slices and tofu cubes, white flour steamed buns can be made vigorously, and the evening is equally sumptuous, every day is like the New Year, and the soldiers who only eat those who have no oil and water in their stomachs are only diarrhea.

The training has been carried out for a week, the morning gathering, the team members have experience, pants, boots first put on, and then put on clothes and rushed out of the barracks door, while running and wearing, the equipment is also in order, and learned to help each other, most of the team members can meet in the field within the specified time, which makes Ma Zheng very satisfied.

However, not all battles were fought during the day, and in the face of the powerful Japanese army, night attacks were the main means for the Eighth Route Army to win, so night training must be put on the agenda.

After a hard day of training, eat, whistle, and sleep!

Soon, there was a lot of snoring in the barracks.

While I was sleeping, a sudden unusually sharp whistle sounded, and then, just like when I got up in the morning, the company commanders and deputy company commanders were desperately banging on the door, "Get up, get up quickly, gather urgently... Quick..."

After a day of exhausting training, the team members were awakened in their sleep, some of the fighters could not react, and they were stunned and did not know what to do, and more of them put on their clothes after a moment of panic and quickly ran to the training ground to assemble.

This was the scene of the first night assembly of the troops, and looking at the embarrassed soldiers in front of him, Ma Zheng surprisingly did not reprimand. Because he knew that no matter which force it was, the result of the first emergency assembly in the middle of the night would definitely not be too ideal, especially since most of these fighters had been lazy bandits before.

"Stand upright, take a break!" After Li Dayong and the others sorted out their respective teams, they handed them over to Ma Zheng for instructions.

Ma Zheng's majestic gaze slowly swept over the faces of the soldiers in the field.

"The emergency assembly at night is to train your ability to react quickly at night, if there is an emergency combat readiness order, or if you find and be attacked by the enemy's sudden attack, you can have the ability to quickly concentrate and attack quickly.

Facing a group of sleepy-eyed soldiers, Ma Zheng didn't feel that he raised his voice when he spoke, "In the future training, the emergency assembly at night will be held from time to time, tonight is the first rehearsal, in the future emergency assembly, you also need to prepare to carry the weapons and equipment you carry, and the commanders of each company and platoon will bring back their respective teams to explain in detail the requirements of the emergency assembly and disband!" ”

While the troops were training, Ma Zheng's intelligence officers were not idle, and the situation in the surrounding area was quickly reported back to Hades Mountain. Including the Japanese puppet forces and bandits in several nearby banner counties, it is very targeted and detailed.

In order to sort out this information, Ma Zheng specially transferred Xu Xiaolin, who was fluent in literature and ink, to the battalion headquarters, and let him serve as the commander of the guard platoon and the head of the intelligence group.

The reason why he was chosen was because Xu Xiaolin was one of the few literate people in the army, although the cultural level was not very high, but most of the common words were still known.

The second is that this guy is a local, and he knows all about the people and things in the nearby five miles and eight towns, and when he was in charge of Yun Batian, Xu Xiaolin was the head of the family who was in charge of intelligence in the cottage, and letting him be in charge of the intelligence collection of the army can be regarded as allowing him to return to his old job.

After a week, the queue and physical training are basically over, and the next step is the real combat maneuver training, including gun maneuvering, shooting, assassination, attacking, charging, creeping forward, and individual tactics.

In this part, Ma Zheng focused on training assassination and shooting, as well as individual tactics, because of the limited time, some things can only be roughly involved, and there is no need for such detailed training. However, the Japanese assassination must be well trained, and the troops that dare to engage in white-knuckle combat with the Japanese army are a force with a strong will to fight, and can be called elite soldiers.

And shooting is the top priority of military training, and if the soldiers of such a unit like the Eighth Route Army lacked ammunition and backward weapons and equipment, if the shooting accuracy of the soldiers was extremely poor, it would be troublesome.

Therefore, Ma Zheng ignored the opposition of Huang Sicheng, Wang Hansen and others, insisted on training with live ammunition, and required each soldier to shoot five bullets a day. Ma Zheng thought very simply, the soldiers who had not been trained in live ammunition were all a group of Zhao Kuo, and they would only talk on paper.

At present, the number of troops is not large, only more than 500 people, each person has five rounds of ammunition per day, and at the end of the day, it is only 2,500 rounds. In addition, most of these soldiers have touched guns before, as long as they are taught the correct way to shoot and practice, they will not let him down.

Sure enough, in less than a week, the shooting level of the fighters has improved qualitatively while insisting on live-fire training. Ma Zheng even found a lot of sharpshooters from the troops, and they were all good seedlings of snipers.

After more than half a month of training, Ma Zheng felt that it was almost time for this unit to see blood.