The next day, when Meng Qingshan woke up, the originally lively Lijiazhuang became unusually quiet, in order to prepare for the coming winter, now only a guard battalion and the logistics department of the recruit regiment and the teaching team were left in the entire Lijiazhuang.

After many days of construction, the whole Lijiazhuang has changed greatly, although it is simple, but it is simply a miniature town, except for the lack of city walls, Meng Qingshan first came to the headquarters hospital to visit the wounded, most of the lightly injured people in the hospital have returned, only some seriously injured people remain, these days Meng Qingshan came to visit them every morning and discussed with them how to work in various villages in the future.

"Staff Officer Wang, is the reconnaissance battalion back?" Meng Qingshan came out of the hospital and came to the war room.

"Commander, you're back, we're resting now, and a few of us are drawing a topographical map of a hundred miles around us based on the drawings brought back by the reconnaissance battalion."

"Okay, you go ahead." As he spoke, he picked up a few record drawings of the reconnaissance battalion and looked at them. found that he didn't find that he was looking for something after looking for a long time, but he was surprised to find that there was an abandoned gold mine here, which surprised Meng Qingshan, you must know that Lao Maozi is not that you said that he would support you if you asked for help, you must buy, you have to buy money, you must have hard currency to ask for money, just like the Soviet Union said that a batch of materials would be transported to Xinjiang and let the Red Army collect it by itself, when the Red Army, which was short of ammunition, heard that it was the help of the big brother and happily sent the Western Route Army to start the westward expedition, and as a result, a large number of commanders and fighters were lost. I didn't even see a single hair of the supplies.

"Huzi, go, invite the old village chief."

Soon, the old village chief came to Meng Qingshan under the leadership of Xu Hu. Meng Qingshan hurriedly arrived at a glass of water.

"Elder Li drinks water." Meng Qingshan hurriedly beckoned the old village chief to sit down.

"Elder Li, I don't know if you're familiar with the terrain here." Meng Qingshan asked.

"Commander Meng, you can ask the right person, when I was young, I was one of the best hunters in a hundred miles, I have been hunting in the mountains since I was a child, and there is no one more familiar with me here." The old village chief said proudly.

"Elder Li, do you know where there is a hidden place, a big cave suitable for Tibetans?" Meng Qingshan hurriedly asked.

"Hidden place, there is a gold mine that has been abandoned for a long time on the other side of the mountain, you must know that the gold mine is really a good place, but it is too remote, is there anything Commander Meng can help?"

"Old Li, there is really something to trouble you, I don't know ...... you"

"It's okay, are you worried that my old bone can't go up the mountain, don't worry about going up the mountain to hunt I'm a big deal, but I can still drop it if I lead you up the mountain."

In this way, Meng Qingshan helped Li Lao to walk in which direction of the gold mine with a guard platoon, in fact, the distance was not too far, mainly because it was too remote, the road was difficult to walk, and it took a lot of time, and finally after two hours, the group came to the mouth of a cave, at this time the entrance of the cave had been blocked by weeds or cleaned up by the guard platoon, only to find that the hole was very large, and a spring water flowed out next to it.

The entrance of the cave is about to enter three meters wide, more than two meters high, Meng Qingshan took everyone along the entrance of the cave less than ten meters, the eyes suddenly opened up, the three-meter-wide hole slowly became more than ten meters wide, the length is nearly twenty meters, Meng Qingshan probably calculated, the area of the entire flat land is 400 square meters. There was a stream running down the side of the field, and there was a skylight overhead, which shone the sunlight obliquely into the hole.

Meng Qingshan continued to walk along the creek, and several large holes of dozens of square meters were found in succession, and the air inside was dry. "God help me." Meng Qingshan thought secretly.

In Meng Qingshan's heart, this is the place where he wants to build an arsenal is hidden and safe, the big hole in front can be used to place a set of processing equipment and open his own arsenal, and a few smaller caves in the back are used as a place for workers to rest and sleep, and some grain can also be placed in the small hole, and the dry air in it is definitely not a problem to place it for two years, so that in addition to transporting materials, it can rarely contact people to avoid exposure and bombing by enemy planes.

Everyone got out of the cave, Meng Qingshan ordered the guards to platoon the hole after the entrance of the cave was hidden, Li Lao saw that Meng Qingshan was very satisfied and happily introduced a few caves to Meng Qingshan, and pulled Meng Qingshan around the cave one by one, Meng Qingshan and others wandered around the mountain for a morning, and finally returned to the village until their stomachs growled, and at the invitation of Meng Qingshan, the old village chief stayed at the headquarters and had a happy meal. The location is very secluded.

As soon as he sent Li Lao home, he saw Li Yanping hurriedly running towards him, "Political commissar, what's wrong!" Seeing that the political commissar was panting, Meng Qingshan asked.

"Good news, good news, commander, a company of the guard regiment has returned to escort a large amount of food and prisoners." The commissar replied breathlessly.

"What, so soon, in just one morning, we have eliminated a den of bandits, where we are going to see?" Meng Qingshan asked suspiciously, and ran out with the political commissar.

Seeing that the outside of the village was surrounded by three circles inside and three times outside, Meng Qingshan took a look at the villagers in the village, and they surrounded the soldiers who were escorting the supplies. "Commissar, what's going on?" Meng Qingshan asked eagerly.

"I don't understand, I was fine when I left, why did I become like this after a while?" Li Yanping said in surprise.

At this time, the old village chief who Meng Qingshan had just sent away ran over and knelt down for Meng Qingshan at once, Meng Qingshan hurriedly helped the old village chief and said, "Didn't Li Lao feel good just now?" Why did you kneel again after a while? ”

"Commander Meng, the old man begs you to release this group of descendants, don't kill them."

"Huh! Li Lao, how do you know this group of bandits. ”

"Commander Meng, you misunderstood, they are not bandits, they are all descendants of Lijiazhuang, in order to avoid the capture of the little devils, they were forced to go up the mountain to become bandits, I guarantee that they have not done evil."

Hearing the old village chief's explanation, Meng Qingshan also understood, no wonder when he entered the village, the village was full of old, weak, young and middle-aged people, and almost none of them went up the mountain to escape the Japanese army's labor, "Since it was all a misunderstanding, Xiao Zhang quickly released them all and let them go back to their respective homes, and let them collect the captured materials by themselves." Meng Qingshan said with a smile.

The commander of the Anti-Japanese Union Company, who came back from escorting supplies, muttered: "I said that these bandits are all young and middle-aged, I thought that the bandits are all elite now!" ”

Seeing the reunion of the young man and his parents, Meng Qingshan smiled, turned around and prepared to go back to the command room to discuss the arsenal plan with the political commissar.

"Commander Meng, please stay."

Meng Qingshan turned around and saw the old village chief leading a black strong man with a height of one meter nine, and his sturdy figure made Meng Qingshan excited, I will ask this one to eat to grow up, you must know that in the future Meng Qingshan is only less than one meter seven, and now his body is only a little more than one meter seven.

"Commander Meng, this is my grandson Li Daniu, who has learned some dealer tricks, I want him to join the army and fight devils with you, you see."

After many days of getting along, the villagers already believed in the Anti-Japanese Federation, and after seeing what the Anti-Japanese Federation did, those simple villagers were more convinced of the Independent Brigade, and when they saw that the old village chief handed over his only grandson to the Anti-Japanese Federation, the villagers led their children to Meng Qingshan and wanted to join the army.

In the end, under the leadership of Xiaohuzi, 30 soldiers who were willing to participate in the Anti-Japanese Federation were brought to the new regiment to participate in training, Meng Qingshan was very happy when he heard that Li Daniu actually knew some dealers, he has always been like finding a strong bodyguard in the martial arts Xiang Liangjian Wei Da monk, as for Chen Hu's little boy, promised him to come over as a guard after he finished training, which made Xiaohuzi, who had always thought that he was the only guard in Meng Qingshan, was very angry, and he was worried that the division commander would not want himself if he had this big man in front of him, often made trouble and fought with him during Li Daniu's training, of course, it was Li Da Niu who was beaten, Xiao Huzi bullied Li Da Niu at every turn as the commander of the guard battalion, and finally I didn't expect the two to slowly become good friends, it's really the world is all-encompassing.

After Xiaohuzi left, Meng Qingshan asked the old village chief, asking him if the nearby villages were like them, and they all went to the mountains to be bandits in order to avoid the labor of the Japanese army, and 80% of the answers from Li Lao were done this, and the remaining 20 identified the little devils were captured, and when he learned the news, Meng Qingshan immediately ordered the messenger to send a telegram to the guard brigade that was encircling and suppressing the bandits, telling them about the incident, and asked them to seriously investigate, supplemented by persuasion to surrender, and not to hurt a good person, but also not to let go of a person who endangered the people.