More than 20 villages were shelled, more than 500 villagers were killed or wounded, nearly 3,000 soldiers were killed or wounded, and there were also a lot of equipment losses, but not many captures. However, this time Liu Chenghai was no longer sentimental, and just told the following that the devil had suffered enough this time, and he would not dare to invade the base area again in a short time, and he would have to find it back from the devil piecemeal in the future. The common people sent more children to join the army!

After this battle, Liu Chenghai has 5,000 veterans under his command---- and the soldiers who have fought are veterans! Ill-equipped, don't be afraid! With veterans, you don't have to worry about equipment.

Wang Sitong is back with more than 300 war horses! More than 180 war horses, more than 380 pack horses were all used as combat horses, more than 40 were picked up by Wu Zhen, Lu Qinghu took away 100 horses, Liu Maoer left 100 horses, Liu Chenghai had no complaints, because Wu Zhen left all the company platoon leaders he brought, and he was Liu Chenghai's cavalry teaching team; Lu Qinghu left two brothers, Lu Qingyang and Lu Qingniu, 4 liger dogs and 30 war dogs; Hu Zhaoyue stayed with the women's team temporarily; Liu Maoer sent a teaching company, all of which were old gangsters from Shanghai!

Liu Chenghai began to reorganize the troops: establish a teaching team, train squad leaders, artillery, health troops, communication troops, cavalry, and scouts; 3 battalions were expanded into 6 battalions; set up a special service battalion, with Wang Sitong as the battalion commander; established a cavalry battalion, with Lu Qingyang as the battalion commander; Establish a battalion directly under the command to be responsible for logistics transportation, communications, health, reconnaissance, and security.

After actual combat, the Jiangbei soldiers were divided into various battalions, and soldiers with a middle school education or above were selected to escort them to the Wumu Military Academy, and other educated soldiers were assigned to artillery, communications, and health soldiers according to their education level......

The various departments were stationed and trained in a step-by-step manner, organized militia training, and cultivated reserve troops, but Wang Sitong's special service battalion was busy non-stop, and his task was to plunder weapons and equipment and enrich the troops.

Wang Sitong is now strong and strong, and a teaching company sent by Liu Maoer was divided into two by him, half of which was enriched to the front-line troops of the special service battalion, and half was to each unit to find suitable soldiers and train the reserve soldiers of the special service battalion. Therefore, Wang Sitong now can't look down on the stronghold for petty fighting, and the stronghold will be used for training by other troops!

Wang Sitong sent scouts to track the devil transport team, and the surrounding devils' quartermaster depots at all levels were in Wang Sitong's heart. But Wang Sitong did not plan to loot the logistics base of the devils, but to rob the transport team full of devils. Looting the devil's warehouse is a large investment in troops, and the risk is also large, which is too troublesome and not cost-effective; Robbing the devil transport team, killing the devil and driving away the carriage is both affordable and safe.

Five trucks headed for Rugao, covered with tarpaulin. Devils always do not cover the tarpaulin when they transport food or clothing in order to load more, and the trucks that cover the tarpaulin and are not loaded are important materials, often weapons and equipment, just like these five trucks.

Halfway through the convoy, I saw a wooden sign erected in the middle of the road, which was written in Japanese: There are mines ahead, please detour! In the distance, several sappers were demining. As soon as the devil driver stopped, a group of soldiers of the special service battalion rushed into the truck and stabbed the devil driver and co-pilot to death with a knife.

In half a month, the special service battalion hijacked 27 trucks from several highways in Rugao, Nantong, and Jingjiang, and intercepted 7 mortars, 4 Type 92 infantry guns, 9 heavy machine guns, 28 light machine guns, 57 grenadiers, 449 rifles, 97 pistols, and countless ammunition, which greatly supplemented the ammunition of Liu Chenghai's department, but there was still a big gap in weapons, because the devil transport team mainly transported ammunition with large consumption, and the weapons were only sporadically replenished.

Wang Sitong was very reluctant to rob the turret and stronghold again, so he sent more than 60 teams, each team of 4 people, to guide the garrison troops to pull out the stronghold, and he himself asked Hu Zhaoyue and the female soldiers for help.

There are only 16 people in the women's team, all of them are from the Lu family class, the original kung fu plus Hu Zhaoyue's training and guidance, all of them are masters, all of them are fast horses with strange light type, 1 light machine gun to make up for the lack of Qiguang range, and two grenade machine guns as offensive weapons. Wang Sitong asked Hu Zhaoyue for help was purely sycophant, he knew that with Hu Zhaoyue's current identity, he would not be able to participate in the front-line battle easily, and this trip was enjoyable.

Since it is cavalry, the combat radius is much larger. Wang Sitong accompanied Hu Zhaoyue to Rudong in the east of Nantong, and the devils here had not yet tasted the power of Wu Mujun. Of course, Wang Sitong has not yet reached the point of not knowing death, and he himself has two cavalry squads, one is his own guard squad, and the other is borrowed from Lu Qingyang.

A female soldier in a red cloak rode alone towards the Devil's Turret. The devils on the turret couldn't see the strange light under the female soldier's cloak, but only saw the graceful figure of the eldest girl, and hurriedly called other devils to come and see. Caught off guard, the eldest girl raised her submachine gun and swept over, and the three devils became gluttonous ghosts.

The eldest girl on the horse turned her horse and ran, the devil's machine gun chased and strafed, the eldest girl fell off her horse, staggered and hid in a dirt pit, and the war horse fled in the wilderness. The devils in the turret were overjoyed, and rushed out of 4 devils to catch the prisoners.

The female soldier "difficult" to fight back, the marksmanship was outrageous, only knocked down 1 devil, and the other 3 devils rushed to the front of the female soldier, and saw the female soldier staggering with a knife in an attempt to resist, so he withdrew the bullet and came up with a bayonet to prepare to catch the live. Suddenly, the female soldier brandished her war knife and slashed, showing no signs of injury. The three devils were not opponents, they retreated again and again, and two more people rushed out of the woods, coming to help with bayonets.

The devils in the turret also came out to help with bayonets, turning into 7 devils against 3 soldiers of the Wumu Army. At this time, a Wu Mujun swept with a strange light, and the 7 devils didn't have time to react and became ghosts under the gun. The other two threw grenades into the turret and rushed into it. The three soldiers took the devil's turret, and Wang Sitong and Hu Zhaoyue just took people to watch the battle from afar.

Wang Sitong and the others transported the loot to a safe place and buried it, and marched to the next target. As we walked, we listened to the soldiers' plan for the artillery tower.

Three soldiers of the Wumu Army pushed three carts through a turret. There were 12 beehives on the car as usual, and the devil rushed out as usual to escort 3 cars of beehives into the turret, the soldiers of the Wu Mu Army kicked the trolley a few times as usual, and the bees rushed to the devil as usual to sting violently, and the soldiers of the Wu Mu Army put down the veil, pulled out the pistol under the beehive, killed the devil, pulled the car out of the turret, and the bees gradually returned to the beehive. Wang Sitong ordered people to go in and collect the spoils. The bees did not attack the soldiers of the Wu Mu Army, because the Wu Mu soldiers were rubbed with sulfur powder---- insects avoided them.

Just as Wang Sitong and Hu Zhaoyue rushed to the next stronghold with great interest, they saw the devil's car convoy from a distance, and 8 trucks slowly approached.

A group of Wumu soldiers stood guard at the intersection with machine guns, and they were wearing devil uniforms. The convoy drove to a stop in front of the roadblock, and the soldiers of the Wumu Army couldn't help but get on the truck with bayonets in their hands and beat to death the devil who didn't understand what was going on.

Wang Sitong checked and found that the car was loaded with a large number of weapons and ammunition: 4 infantry guns, 8 mortars, 12 heavy machine guns, 36 light machine guns, 36 grenadiers, 36 boxes of 38 rifles, 120 boxes of grenades, shells and bullets......

Wang Sitong decided to cancel all combat plans and transport the existing weapons and equipment back to the base area.

When Wang Sitong returned to the base area, Liu Chenghai blossomed and immediately distributed the equipment to the troops: the artillery detachment of the teaching team was expanded into an artillery battalion, the cavalry battalion was also equipped with 3 mortars and 3 heavy machine guns, and the infantry battalion was equipped with 3 mortars and 3 heavy machine guns per battalion, and each squad was equipped with 1 light machine gun or 1 grenadier canister.

Liu Chenghai's troop training was not yet mature, so he no longer made big moves, but each unit built light and dark fortifications, concealed passages, exercises, and training in their respective defense areas......

Liu Chenghai also built lime kilns and brick kilns in imitation of the Xishan model, which were used to repair war-damaged houses and build fortifications for the common people. In addition, grain depots were built in various townships to store grain on behalf of the people, and Xishan was invited to cast a batch of bronze medals and copper chips, with the words "ten catties of rice", "fifty catties of rice", "one hundred catties of rice", "five hundred catties of rice" and "one thousand catties of rice", as a grain storage certificate, promising that it can be exchanged for grain according to the face value of the bronze medal and copper chip, but a storage fee of one percent is charged, that is, 110 catties of rice can be exchanged for 100 catties of bronze medals.

Wu Mujun has enough credit in the hearts of the people, plus the devil often grabs grain, and Wu Mujun bears the risk of exchanging grain for bronze medals, although he has to pay a storage fee, but saves the storage of grain space, materials, and labor, so the people actively store grain in the grain depot.

Regarding the casting of bronze medals and copper chips, Shu Jintang was extremely reluctant, because it would consume a lot of copper; Tong Hai strongly supported it, because exchanging copper for grain is equivalent to issuing currency in disguise, which is conducive to stabilizing grain prices and controlling grain circulation; Tuesday Dog, Zhao Dahu and others didn't understand, and even Zeng Qi didn't understand, so they decided to give it a try.

The exchange of copper for grain concentrated a large amount of grain in the hands of Wu Mujun, and the grain in the Japanese-occupied areas also flowed to Liu Chenghai's Jiangbei base area, resulting in a shortage of food in the land of fish and rice, and at the same time, the shortage of copper in Xishan was also to the limit.

Shu Jintang went to the dog on Tuesday to complain that the arsenal was going to stop production! Tong Hai and Zeng Qi insisted on waiting and watching for a while, and on Tuesday Gou had to order Zhou Dagou, Hao Xiuwen, Ma Yihang and others to go to the Japanese-occupied area to make copper materials and supply Xishan for consumption.

Soon Yoo Seung-hae brought rich returns to Xishan. Because the autumn grain has been confiscated, the grain reserves have decreased, and the devils have raised grain to prepare for a new campaign, the problem of food shortage has become more and more prominent, and many Japanese grain merchants who cannot meet the supply of the army will be severely punished, so they have an idea, and use the copper materials of the Japanese factory to imitate the copper chips of Wu Mujun, so as to buy military rations in large quantities from Liu Chenghai, and the common people do not have to pay storage fees to grain merchants, so they are naturally willing to sell them to grain merchants. Moreover, it is refined copper of the Japanese factory.

Shu Jintang tasted the sweetness, and minted a batch of bronze medals and copper chips, and promoted them to other base areas, and soon obtained a large number of copper materials, not only that, but the bronze medals and copper chips evolved into the most credible hard currency in the Xishan, Wumujun guerrilla areas and their surrounding areas, commonly known as "grain chips".

Due to the lack of supply of bronze medals and copper chips, it has become stronger, so more fake bronze medals and fake copper chips have poured into various bases, and Shu Jintang no longer worries about the supply of copper materials.

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