[The Iron Blood King of the Anti-Japanese Army] Chapter 86: Equipment for soldiers

It was already half past seven after the morning training, and Ma Zheng took the head of the headquarters to the canteen with the soldiers for breakfast. Due to the limited space, most of the soldiers went back to their respective stations to eat breakfast, and only the brigade headquarters guard regiment and the personnel of the agency went to the canteen to get dishes and chopsticks to eat.

But even so, the field was not large enough, so the soldiers often squatted on the ground after eating and began to eat, and only a few soldiers who came early could sit at the dinner table to eat.

For breakfast, there was only steamed porridge and a little pickles. It's not abundant, but it's enough.

After breakfast, Ma Zheng, at the request of Mr. Zhu, took the bigwigs of the viewing group to visit the various departments and all the armies in the newly established Suicha base area.

There is no need to go to the department, because there is nothing, everything is an empty shell written on paper, including the county governments of the counties, so the focus of today's visit is on the troops.

Regarding the troops of the Seventh Brigade, Ma Zheng is divided into two parts: light and dark, and the bright one refers to the two regiments placed in the open and a part of the directly subordinate troops and recruits, with a total strength of about 6,000 people. The rest were hidden by him, some of them were sent by him to the depths of Sumu Mountain, and the other part was sent by him to Agui Mountain.

Su Mu Mountain is not to mention, the mountains are high and dense there, and the little devil doesn't know the specific location even if he knows that Ma Zheng has a base there, so Ma Zheng put an infantry regiment there.

Agui Mountain is located in the northeast of Xinghe County, less than 20 kilometers away from Shangyi, the gateway to Zhangjiakou. It used to be a bandit's den, and a large number of houses were built on the mountain, and many bandits were stationed on it. Later, after this bandit was exterminated by Ma Zheng, Ma Zheng sent someone to transform it into a barracks and put Wu Xiuda's regiment here.

The rest of the troops also had their own places to go, and anyway, more than 10,000 troops were hidden by Ma Zheng like this.

However, it can be concealed from the outside world, but it cannot be done to the head of the headquarters, otherwise it will be a mistake.

Therefore, Ma Zheng first took the boss and others to inspect the troops around Jining, about 3,000 people, and then took them to Yama Mountain and Sumu Mountain.

After visiting these places, it was already evening, and on the way back to Jining, Mr. Zhu said with emotion: "People only see you winning battles again and again, but they don't see the efforts and sacrifices you put into every battle. ”

Mr. Peng also said: "Yes, yesterday's military parade really shocked us people, but when I saw your morning training, I realized that your confidence in fighting in the past came from hard training, and your achievements were all exchanged for sweat and blood and tears." I dare to say that even the elite troops of the Kuomintang Central Army are far inferior to yours in terms of training. ”

Ma Zheng said: "Chief, in his position, since I am a front-line commander with great responsibility, then I have the responsibility and obligation to win every battle, and at the same time, I also have the responsibility to bring my soldiers down from the battlefield alive." Although it is glorious to die on the battlefield of resistance against Japan, I still hope that my soldiers will live to see the day when Japan is defeated and the people are the masters of the country. ”

Division Commander He patted Ma Zheng on the shoulder and said, "Okay, I didn't embarrass our 120th Division, that old devil from Sakai Hoji just beat our teaching group half to death, and before he could be happy for a few days, you ambushed his troops and almost captured that old devil." Tooth for tooth, blood for blood, has the style of our soldiers. ”

It was already more than eight o'clock in the evening when he returned to Jining, and Ma Zheng was called into the room by Mr. Zhu just after dinner, saying that he had something to say to him.

When Ma Zheng went, he found that there was another person in the room, and after a closer look, he found that it was Mr. Peng, Ma Zheng said loudly: "Report to the chief, Ma Zheng of the Duqi Brigade reports to you." ”

"Hehe, when you get to your territory, your kid is polite, hurry up and sit down!" Mr. Zhu said with a smile.

Ma Zheng smiled and said, "Are we soldiers after all, we can't have the rules that we should have." ”

The three of them sat down across a table of eight immortals, on which was a white porcelain teapot and several teacups of different colors.

Mr. Zhu first poured a cup for Mr. Peng, then poured a cup for Ma Zheng, and finally filled the teacup in front of him, and then said: "Comrade Ma Zheng, you have developed a remnant of only a few hundred people into the most effective unit in our Eighth Route Army in just half a year, and I thank you on behalf of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters of the Party Central Committee." ”

Ma Zheng hurriedly said: "Boss, please don't say that..."

Before Ma Zheng could finish speaking, Deputy Commander Peng interrupted him and said, "Don't talk yet, wait until the boss finishes speaking!" ”

"Yes"

"Ma Zheng, we can all see the merits you have done, and the chairman and we have seen it in our eyes. However, out of the party's absolute leadership over the army, we may make some adjustments to the personnel arrangements of the 7th Independent Brigade. Don't worry, you can say whatever you have or what you think, don't keep it in your heart. Mr. Zhu said.

Ma Zheng sighed in his heart: "It's time to come." ”

Then he thought for a while and said: "I want to know how the adjustment will be, but no matter what decision the Party Central Committee and the Eighth Route Army Headquarters make, I will fully support it." ”

Mr. Zhu looked at Ma Zheng with satisfaction, and then said: "Don't worry, the main reason is that your team is too special, and the ingredients are too miscellaneous, so we are a little worried." The specific method was to transfer the officers of the 7th Independent Brigade at the battalion level and the military commanders of several other units, especially those who had defected to the Kuomintang. ”

Ma Zheng knew that this kind of thing would come sooner or later, so he thought about it and said, "Boss, can I tell me what I think?" ”

Mr. Peng smiled and said, "I called you here to hear your opinion, say whatever you want, don't hide it." ”

Ma Zheng immediately said: "I understand and understand the concerns of the leaders of the headquarters. What Commander-in-Chief Zhu just said should be to separate the commanders of the newly incorporated units from his original troops. ”

"Well, that's pretty much it!" Mr. Zhu said.

"Chief, I personally think that it is better to transfer the soldiers than to transfer the officers! First, these officers were all recruited by me, and the time was still short, so I transferred them out of the Seventh Brigade in this way, and those people had a pimple in their hearts. ”

"Well, there's some truth to that, keep talking!" Mr. Zhu said in a deep voice.

"Second, most of the officers of our Seventh Brigade were transferred from the 120th Division, especially the grassroots officers, so there should not be much of a problem with the composition of the officers. But our soldiers are different, there are not many Red Army and children of good families who are really rooted, only about one-eighth of the total strength, and the rest used to be either bandits or puppet soldiers, or captured by the Kuomintang, and the composition is extremely complicated, so I think it is necessary to transfer some real Red Army troops over. Ma Zheng said.

Mr. Peng smiled and said: "You kid has a good calculation, don't you know that those real Red Army soldiers are the real main force in various units, you take some captive soldiers who have just been recruited to exchange for the main force of others, who wants to exchange with you?" ”

Ma Zheng smiled and said, "That's not necessarily, my conditions are very tempting!" ”

"Oh, what's the condition, tell me about it?" Mr. Zhu asked with a smile.

"I can get them to take all their weapons and equipment, including all light and heavy machine guns!" Ma Zheng said in surprise.

"Really?"

"Of course it's true, how can the words of the manly man be repaid!" Ma Zheng said.

Mr. Zhu thought for a while and said, "If that's the case, someone will really change it with you." You kid also know that the other troops of our Eighth Route Army, in the eyes of Lao Jiang, are called Huazi troops, and there is a great shortage of weapons and equipment. ”

Of course, Ma Zheng knew this, in the early days of the anti-station, although the Eighth Route Army accepted the adaptation, but the weapons and equipment were still very simple, basically some of the old family backgrounds left over from the Red Army period, the weapons were all kinds of Wanguo brand, millet plus rifles, large blades, rifles, wooden-handled grenades, rifles and ammunition were seriously insufficient. Due to the uneven weaponry, the combat effectiveness was seriously affected.

It is precisely because of this that he proposed such a plan, exchanging weapons and equipment for soldiers, he didn't believe that the commanders of the Eighth Route Army Division who had been flowing for a long time would not be moved?