Looking at the unfolding of various tasks in Xishan, the dog was only anxious on Tuesday, and he couldn't wait to put all the work in place immediately. After inspecting and condolences to the troops on Tuesday, he remembered that the Fifth Infantry Brigade in Baohua Mountain had not yet been inspected, so on Tuesday the dog invited Zhao Dahu, Xiang Qingyun, Ouyang Cheng, Shi Jilun and others to inspect together, give Liu Maoer a strong façade, build a new army, and always ask the commanders to show their faces, stabilize the morale of the army, and stimulate morale.

When they arrived at Baohua Mountain, they saw Liu Maoer's leaders, especially the chief of staff Zeng Qi, because on Tuesday Gou and the others only heard that Zeng Qi of Baohua Mountain was brave and commanded properly, and appointed Zeng Qi as the chief of staff of the Fifth Infantry Brigade without meeting.

Seeing Zeng Qi, everyone was somewhat surprised. Zeng Qi's indifferent attitude of honor and disgrace made everyone have no enthusiasm for him, just a few polite words for his age; In addition, it is the age, Zeng Qizu has more than 40 years old, 50 years younger, more than 10 years older than Zhao Dahu, this age is almost unique in the Wumu army, because there are few soldiers in the Wumu army who are more than 30 years old, and the officers are not more than 40 years old, Tuesday Dog is 26 years old, Xiang Qingyun is 29 years old, Ouyang Cheng is 29 years old, Shi Jilun is 32 years old, and Zhao Dahu is the oldest among high-level officers, only 37 years old; In addition, Zeng Qi is a typical professional soldier.

Liu Maoer began to report to work.

In view of the fact that the Nanjing-Shanghai Railway was destroyed by the Wumu Army in the previous stage, and the Japanese army was rushing to repair it, there was no material passage for the time being, and the Fifth Infantry Brigade did not arrange combat missions for the time being, focusing on reorganization, rest, training, building fortifications, and warehouses; The Fifth Infantry Brigade is based on the original Xishan garrison, action team, escort team, and porters and coachmen of the transport team, with a total of more than 1,600 people, almost all of whom are old teams brought from Shanghai: tea doctors, bodyguards, big teapots, gangsters, robbers, coachmen, drivers, porters, most of them have experienced more than 10 battles, this reorganization, each infantry brigade is incorporated into recruits and stragglers, Zhao Dahu has allocated him a batch of recruits, Liu Maoer does not want, because Baohua Mountain is the farthest away from the Wumu Army base and the main force, Once besieged, it will become a lone army, which will be very dangerous, so Liu Maoer would rather have fewer soldiers, but also well-trained, determined and fierce veterans and elite soldiers; In addition to normal training, the carjacking battalion focuses on training in picking up trains, hijacking trains, fighting in carriages and on the top of carriages, train hooking, decoupling, prying doors, unloading in trains, identifying railway signals, understanding train operation systems and laws, and occupying railway stations; The battalion focuses on training in blocking and guerrilla warfare using the railway's roadbed, railroad tracks, water supply stations, road squad houses, pillboxes, and the terrain next to the railway, overcoming the fortified forts and artillery towers along the railway, attacking the armored vehicles patrolling the Japanese army, inserting, eavesdropping, and cutting the Japanese army's telephone lines, and vigilance, attacking, and evading Japanese aircraft. The key training train is to receive goods on the side of the middle road, the handling and storage of large and small goods on the mountain road, the production and transformation of handling equipment, the identification and handling precautions of various materials, and the protection of materials during transportation; The warehouse battalion is responsible for the receiving, classification, and storage of materials, the design of true and false roads outside the warehouses, the search for caves, mountain nests and other warehouse locations, the moisture-proof and fireproof warehouses of the warehouses, the appearance camouflage of the warehouses, the concealed defensive positions, and the training of the enemy response plan for protecting the warehouses; Liu Maoer also borrowed the sappers led by Zhu Dun from Wang Laodun, and built a number of fortifications and traffic trenches according to local conditions, and built Baohua Mountain into a group of hidden forts......

Tuesday Dog and the others were fascinated by what they heard.

"That's not right! Where did you get such a great ability and think so thoroughly? Zhao Dahu found that this was not Liu Maoer's style.

"Commander-in-chief, don't look down on people, why can't my old Liu know how to play at the advanced level? After so many battles with devils, I can't grow a little better? Liu Maoer was unconvinced.

"You just blow it, can you have this ability with a gangster?" Shi Jilun didn't believe it either.

"I can't! Which of you can do it?" Liu Mao'er asked everyone stunned: Yes, who can do it?

Liu Mao'er couldn't help laughing: "Yes, I can't!" But didn't our headquarters assign me a competent chief of staff? He can! ”

Everyone was stunned, damn, this Zeng Qi is really a master!

"I've been a soldier for so many years, I just know a little more, Commander Zhou and Commander-in-Chief Zhao give me a chance to show my face, and the little old man has to work hard, right?" Zeng Qi snorted, and then changed the conversation, "A few chiefs are hungry, right?" Would you like to give our 5th Infantry Brigade a taste of the food? ”

At the table, the meal is very simple, except for a pot of stewed frog legs, there are no other meat dishes.

"Lao Liu, you can't eat! Soldiers do such heavy physical work, how can they eat this? "Zhao Dahu quit.

"The commander-in-chief doesn't know, our mountain is far away from the base area, and it is inconvenient to transport meat and eggs!" Liu Maoer explained, "The wild animals on the mountain were scared away by our construction and training! ”

"That's not going to work! Let the Joint Logistics Brigade send a batch of jerky, salted meat, and salted eggs! "Zhao Dahu does have the strength to love soldiers like a son.

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After lunch, Ouyang Cheng quietly found Tuesday Dog, Zhao Dahu, Xiang Qingyun, and Shi Jilun: "Several chiefs, this Zeng Qi is not an ordinary person, it is Zeng Qi, the major general of the ** Society!" ”

Several bigwigs were stunned, no wonder this guy has a set of soldiers!

On Tuesday, the dog and his party found Liu Maoer and Zeng Qi.

"Liu Mao'er, Zeng Qi can't be your chief of staff, the headquarters has to be appointed separately!" Zhao Dahu got straight to the point.

"That won't do! We've just had a bit of fun with our buddies, and you're going to dig me in the corner, no! ”

Liu Maoer did not hesitate to bump into it.

"You eyeless thing, Zeng Qi is a dignified ** major general, can you afford to be your chief of staff?" Zhao Dahu confessed.

"What?" Liu Mao'er was stunned, "Brother Zeng, is this true?" ”

"I'm so sorry, but I still let you recognize it!" Zeng Qi smiled calmly, "The little old man has been fighting for half his life, and he has been fighting in the civil war nest, and he has just fought a few battles with the devil, and after a few days, he was disturbed by you!" ”

It turned out that Zeng Qi was a descendant of the famous general Zeng Guofan of the Qing Dynasty, and was influenced by Zeng Guofan since he was a child and decided to join the army, and studied in the Japanese military academy. After Tang Shengzhi defected to Chiang, Chairman Chiang transferred Zeng Qi to the Military Commission in order to disintegrate Tang Shengzhi's strength, but he did not trust him, and only arranged for a major general to serve as a senator. During the defense of Nanjing, he was sent by Tang Shengzhi to the 66th Army as a liaison officer, and after the city was broken, he disguised himself as a soldier and planned to sneak out of the city, but was captured by the Japanese army. After being rescued by Wu Mujun, he was contained as a skirmisher, and when Xishan was reorganized into the army, he was assigned to the special service Wan Zixiong's subordinates, and later incorporated into the garrison as a man. It wasn't until the battle of Baohua Mountain that he had the opportunity to show his strength.

"Senior, you have been wronged!" On Tuesday, the dog and others were moved to tears.

"Don't be aggrieved," Zeng Qi said calmly, "If I feel aggrieved, I would have run back to ** as a major general!" You babies are playing well, much better than the real **, I really don't feel wronged, not wronged! As long as you can do it with the little devil, the little old man is not wronged if he dies! ”

"Brother Zeng, stay in our Fifth Brigade, and Liu Mao'er will do chores for you, okay?" Liu Maoer saw that she had picked up the "treasure", and said that she wanted to keep Zeng Qi anyway.

"Stay put, there's no place for you to talk!" Zhao Dahu picked up the shelf.

"Yes, General Zeng should go back to the headquarters first, and then we will discuss!" Tuesday Dog also persuaded that such a real general, Wu Mujun needed it too much.

"Slow, I'm the major general of **, and the Military Commission will ask you for someone if it knows it, so it's not easy for you to do it!" Zeng Qi also has concerns.

"Let's go back to the headquarters and study these things!" Tuesday the dog doesn't care about that, leave the person behind first.

Zeng Qi explained the precautions in all aspects of work to Liu Mao'er clearly, and then returned to the headquarters with Tuesday Dog and others.

Back in Xishan, everyone discussed Zeng Qi's resettlement with Zeng Qi. Zeng Qi proposed, although he only wants to go to the front line and do it with devils, but he is the former ** major general, it is not good to show the mountain dew, and then the Wumu army troops have a very mixed source of soldiers, and they are brave and cunning in battle, but there is a big gap in the quality of individual soldiers, and the refugees, the Guangdong army, the Sichuan army, the Hunan army, the Gui army, the Guizhou army, the Yunnan army, the Northwest Army, the Northeast Army, the Central Army, and the recruits, the original training system, command orders, and tactical ideas are different, and the cooperation in the operation has been repeatedly wronged. training a group of literate reserve officers; Tuesday Dog or Zhao Dahu himself is the president, and he is the provost.

These ideas coincide with Xiang Qingyun, Ouyang Cheng and others, and have been unanimously approved.

Zeng Qi continued to analyze: "The reason why Wu Mujun has the current good situation is mainly because: first, the top and bottom are concentric, and it is our responsibility to protect the territory and the people;

second, it was temporarily behind enemy lines, and the Japanese army had no time to take care of it;

Third, the tactics are good, less hard fighting with the devils, avoiding their edges, hitting their backs and abdomen, and their soft underbelly, and mainly plundering equipment and killing and injuring the devils' vital forces.

Through the above advantages, Wu Mujun has obtained the current advantages:

First, it is well-equipped. The infantry not only has rifles, light and heavy machine guns, but also has enough mortars, infantry guns, mountain artillery, field artillery and other heavy firepower, a large number of trucks, carts and other mobile combat tools, and sufficient ammunition;

Second, the quality of individual soldiers is high, and there are a large number of veterans in the source of soldiers, because many people were rescued by Wu Mujun and have seen the brutality of devils, so they are brave in battle;

Third, morale is high. A series of victories made the whole army of Wu Mu full of confidence and strong in the pursuit of war.

However, those who do not seek eternity are not enough to seek a moment; Those who do not grasp the overall situation are not enough to seek a corner. Wu Mujun has an Achilles' heel, that is, it does not have a solid foundation. Wu Mujun's equipment mainly comes from capture, once this channel is stuck by devils, what will happen in the future? Without equipment, how can the troops fight and capture? What about food and provisions? Without logistical supplies, once the soldiers are overwhelmed, the Wumu army will fall apart! ”

Xiang Qingyun answered coldly: "Then it's better for us to defect to the Central Army?!" ”

"No!" Zeng Qi's attitude was very straightforward.

"Japanese?" Ouyang Cheng was almost furious.

"No!" Zeng Qi still simply denied it.

"**, New Fourth Army?" Tuesday Dog and Zhao Dahu were also puzzled.

"No!" Zeng Qi shook his head again and again. "We are self-reliant! As far as I know, we have a large number of imported equipment idle, and a large number of skilled workers are available, so why not hurry up and get started! ”

"However, we have a small area and do not have enough power and raw materials!" Shi Jilun was also worried about this.

"Silly boy, building a factory is the same as fighting a war, let's do it first, and then talk about it, the ship will naturally go straight to the bridge! Got it? Zeng Qi unknowingly entered the role of the chief and taught people a lesson.

"Oh!" A group of people suddenly realized.

Just do it. On Tuesday, the dog immediately called the leaders for a staff meeting.

The Committee decided:

1. The formation of Wumu Military Academy: President Tuesday Dog, Provost Zeng Qi. With the teaching brigade as the team, there is a student department and a further education department. The Student Division admits young students as reserve officers for a period of two years. The Department of Advanced Studies trains officers on active duty for a period of six months. It is divided into Infantry Section, Artillery Section, Engineer Section, Cavalry Section, Baggage Section, Reconnaissance Section, Staff Section, Military Industry Section, Health Section, Gendarmerie Section, and Manager Section.

2. Establish the Military Industry Department of Wumu Army, and the director Shu Jintang. Establishment of explosives factory, bullet factory, rope factory, weaving factory, garment factory, equipment factory, repair factory, raw material factory, match factory,

Soap factories, pharmaceutical factories, cigarette factories, livestock farms, food factories.

Shujintang organizes personnel planning and design, and coordinates the mobilization of relevant engineers, transportation and other departments for implementation.

Among them, pharmaceutical factories, cigarette factories, livestock farms, food factories, garment factories, equipment factories, and repair factories have been put into operation, and a large number of disabled soldiers have been placed.

Pharmaceutical factory: Lou Sanchun is in charge, assisted by Ma Qinghan, Wang Ziwei and Wang Changgeng. In addition to the first-aid kits, hemostatic medicines, alcohol, snake medicines, anti-snake medicines, anti-mosquito medicines, as well as sweat medicines, soul-breaking incense, poisonous mushroom powder, and the inventory management of Western medicines, it is also responsible for the inventory management of Western medicines. In the future, it will also produce civilian Chinese patent medicines, such as pediatric medicines, gynecological medicines, dermatological medicines, ophthalmic medicines, tonic medicines, etc.

The livestock farms originally raised chickens, ducks, geese, rabbits, pigs, sheep, donkeys, horses, cattle, etc., but now they should be adjusted to mainly raise breeding poultry and breeding animals, and let the local people raise the rest, focusing on raising horses and supplying troops, and all horses should be tamed as military horses. It is also necessary to purchase finished poultry meat, eggs and milk, especially animal fat, and prepare fat raw materials for soap factories and explosives factories.

In addition to the production of fried rice, sugar balls, and jerky, the food factory also focuses on the production of casings and bone glue to make raw materials for military factories.

In addition to the production of military uniforms, military hats, quilts and other items, garment factories have increased the production of military rucksacks, bullet belts, and dry food bags, and the raw materials are provided by the weaving factory.

In addition to the production of military shoes and raincoats, the equipment factory will merge the hard crossbow workshop into the equipment factory, and also increase the production of rattan stabbing protective gear, wooden guns, armed belts, gun holsters, military leather bags, map tubes, and military boots.

In addition to the original production of the three kinds of cigarettes, the cigarette factory also strengthened procurement, increased output, and ordered Wang Laodun to imitate the packaging of various cigarettes.

In addition to the original production of earthen detonators, blasting canisters, smoke grenades, incendiary explosive packs, stun bombs, grenadier cartridges (incendiary bombs, flares), and fuses, the ammunition plant also needs to develop the production of grenades and increase the production of mines.

The factory is responsible for the repair of weapons, the installation of machinery and equipment, and the production of grenadiers, sapper shovels, pickaxes, steel helmets, blaster jackets, anti-tank mines and auxiliary equipment, Luoyang shovels, vices, hand tools and other metal equipment. Centralized deployment and training of skilled workers, and provision of technical personnel for the establishment of other factories.

Raw material factories, soap factories, match factories, and steelmaking factories took the lead to provide nitric acid, saltpeter, glycerin, sulfur, copper, iron, lead, and other raw materials for the explosives factories and bullet factories in the future.

Energy and power problems: 1. Mining the coal mine discovered in Guangde; 2. Make use of the streams in the West Mountain to build more waterwheels; 3. Remove the boiler of the steam tractor; 4. The lack of materials and equipment was instructed to be purchased by Zhou Dagou through domestic and foreign businessmen in the Shanghai Concession. 5. Use the existing power generation equipment to generate electricity and make steel. 6. Purchase and exploit the resources of surrounding counties: cotton, linen, silk, iron, copper, phosphorus, sulfur, lead, etc.

In addition to the commonly used cotton cloth, the weaving factory will put into production canvas as soon as possible.

The rope factory will put into production ropes as soon as possible for transportation and use by troops in mountain operations.

Explosives production equipment and bullet production equipment should be installed and debugged as soon as possible to promote the production and procurement of upstream factories.

3. While ensuring combat and training, all units should pay attention to saving ammunition and pay attention to capturing ammunition and materials for devils in the course of operations.

Fourth, send special forces to target the devil's logistics warehouses and transportation lines, and seize materials for the purpose of looting the devil's materials.

Fifth, we should start all the productive capacity that can be activated and develop the economy with a view to self-sufficiency.

As a result, the industrial production of Xishan kicked off vigorously.

The sentry outside the mountain came with the news that a Japanese named Moio Yoshikawa asked to see him. On Tuesday, the dog was amused when he heard it, and the Japanese came to me to add food.

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