"Master, are you alright?" Qiao Wu hurriedly stepped forward to hold Qiao Siyuan and asked eagerly.

"Someone, please ask for a doctor!" Qiao Wu helped Qiao Siyuan, and when he saw that he had fainted, his face suddenly became anxious, and he immediately turned his head and shouted towards the courtyard.

"Ahem, cough, ahem......" Qiao Siyuan suddenly coughed violently, and woke up a little weakly and said, "Qiao Wu, I'm fine......"

"Master, are you alright?" Qiao Wu was sad and happy, and said with a concerned face.

"Don't worry, I can't die, the Japanese are not extinguished, my old life will never end easily, and I will not close my eyes until the day when my Chinese heroes set foot on the four islands of Dongying." Qiao Siyuan coughed and whispered.

………………………… When Qiao Anbang and Qiao Anguo led the guard troops back to the Longshan military camp, the sky had quietly brightened, and a touch of fish belly white had already appeared in the distant sky in the east, and a round of red was rising, and the quiet land of northern Anhui began to become busy again, and wisps of cooking smoke rose from time to time in the city of Pheasant and Jixian County.

In a forest on the north side of the barracks, the bodies of Qiao Anbang's family and hundreds of sacrificed guard soldiers had all begun to be cremated, and Qiao Anbang led all the officers and soldiers of the guard regiment to see them off in person, looking at the raging fire, two tears quietly slipped from the corners of Qiao Anbang's eyes.

"Shoot!" Under the order of Wang Gensheng, the commander of the guard regiment, more than 1,000 officers and men of the guard regiment raised their steel guns one after another, and for a time the gunfire was loud, and the deafening sound of gunfire echoed in the woods for a long time, and some birds were so frightened that they flew in all directions.

"Salute!" There was another shout, and everyone, including Qiao Anbang, stood up and saluted in unison!

Qiao An's family, along with more than 100 sacrificed soldiers, was buried in the cemetery of the anti-Japanese heroes located outside the Longshan military camp, and during the whole process, Qiao Siyuan did not show up, not because he was ruthless, but because he didn't want to see his son's tragic death, and he didn't want to let the living worry about him, as a father, as the spiritual pillar of his sons, he had to endure the pain.

The reason why Qiao Anbang chose the cemetery of the fallen soldiers next to the barracks is to allow those deceased heroes to be with the barracks they loved during their lifetime, to hear the voices of their comrades-in-arms from time to time, and to increase the sense of cohesion of the troops, so that the recruits can live and die together, and share weal and woe.

At the same time, at the head of the Pheasant and Jiximen City, Qiao Siyuan was looking at the Longshan military camp from afar with the support of Qiao Wu, listening to the sudden gunfire just now, Qiao Siyuan's voice was a little desolate and trembling: "Settle down and my son, go all the way ......."

…………………… Time flies, time flies.

In a blink of an eye, more than half a month has passed, Qiao Anbang also came out of the initial grief, he took Liang Jiahan to inspect the military camp and arsenal as usual, when he came to the arsenal and passed by an office, his expression was obviously darkened, recalling that Qiao An's family worked here to take care of the arsenal for himself, and a nameless sourness came to his heart again.

Because the important surname of the arsenal is very important to the Tiger Army, Qiao Anbang's more loyal subordinates such as Li Yifeng, Cao Er and Li Jupeng are not yet capable of managing the arsenal, as for others, if they have the ability, Qiao Anbang is not at ease to hand over the arsenal to him, so now the arsenal is managed by the eldest brother Qiao Anguo.

The scale of the arsenal is already very large, in addition to tanks and heavy artillery, which have not yet been mass-produced, other light weapons, such as rifles, submachine guns, and general-purpose machine guns, have achieved large-scale mass production, which can basically meet the needs of the current tiger army.

As for ammunition, Qiao Anbang is also secretly storing it to prepare for a possible large-scale battle in the future, and the warehouse used to store strategic ammunition is built in the basement of Longshan, which was built directly on the mountainside by Qiao Anbang with a lot of manpower and material resources, and with the mountain as a cover, even the ordinary army bombing can completely withstand it.

In this short period of time, a group of radar troops trained by Yali to help the Tiger Ben Army have also made great progress, and some radar stations have already begun to be put into use.

The training of the flight regiment has also progressed quite rapidly, and with the experience of most of the pilots in successful test flights, other pilots have also successfully flown into the sky very quickly, and now the flight regiment can send fighter planes or reconnaissance planes to inspect the airspace of the Huben Army base area every day.

As the head of the flight regiment, Gao Xiang flew a fighter plane over Xuzhou, and although he failed to meet the plane, he also added a lot of valuable flying experience to Gao Xiang.

Since Qiao Anbang ordered the 1st and 2nd Divisions to take advantage of the opportunity of pursuing the special combat team of the Yue Army to advance westward more than 20 days ago, the sphere of influence of the Tiger Ben Army has now expanded to more than 300 li from north to south, more than 260 li from east to west, with a population of nearly one million.

So far, except for Huainan, Fengyang and other places in northern Anhui that are in the hands of Li Pinxian and other departments, most of the rest of the areas have become the base of the Tiger Army, and after mastering these territories, the Tiger Army has also begun to have a stable source of tax revenue, and Qiao Anbang does not need to extract equipment and money from the aircraft uncontrollably.

After all, it is not a way to go on like this, and it will eventually lead to the collapse of China's economy, and the ocean is worthless.

When Qiao Anbang was immersed in his memories, there was a sound of footsteps in front of him, and when he looked up, he saw that his eldest brother Qiao Anguo had already strode over.

"Anbang!" Qiao Anguo was the first to say hello: "Why are you standing here?" Go in and sit. ”

"Oh, good." Qiao Anbang followed Qiao Anguo to push the door into the office, looking at the office where the display was still in place, Qiao Anbang's mood couldn't help but become solemn, but when he sounded his father's words, the solemnity in his heart was suddenly swept away.

After cleaning up his mood again, Qiao Anbang raised his head and said to Qiao Anguo: "Big brother, now that all the work in the base area is going smoothly and everything is proceeding in an orderly manner, I wonder if we should expand one or two more divisions, after all, our current strength is still too weak, and there is still a certain gap between the 100,000 army!" ”

"Well, I also have this idea, although we now have four main divisions, but with the expansion of the base area, the strength will be much more dispersed, if we do not expand the troops, once a war breaks out, with the mobile forces we have at hand will suffer a big loss. So we have to maintain a mobile force of sufficient size! Qiao Anguo nodded approvingly, and then said with a difficult face: "However, if we expand the army, we will have to expand one or two more arsenals, otherwise the Longshan Arsenal alone will not be able to meet the logistics required by the 100,000 army." ”

"Then let's expand two more arsenals." Qiao Anbang said without thinking.

"But now the vacant land area of Yongsan is saturated, and there is no vacant land on the mountain or halfway up the mountain for the construction of a new arsenal." Joan National Highway ......

"So?" Hearing this, Qiao Anbang got up, walked to a map hanging on the wall, and looked around the map for a long time, and finally pointed here: "Big brother, we can expand two arsenals here. ”

Hearing this, Qiao Anguo walked up, looked at the map and said, "Taihe County? ”

"That's right, it's Taihe County, since Yingzhou and Jieshou and other places were included in the sphere of influence by our army, Taihe has become the hinterland of my base area, although it is not as good as the location of Pheasant and Ji, but in terms of the entire base area, it is currently the most suitable place to build an arsenal." Qiao Anbang said thoughtfully.

"Well, once you've decided, we can start planning and building." Joan National Highway.

"Well, the matter of the eldest brother will be handed over to you, and I will solve the required building materials, as for the labor, you can recruit the people in Taihe and pay them by day." Qiao Anbang nodded.

"Okay, no problem." Qiao Anguo replied excitedly.

……………… Leaving the arsenal, Qiao Anbang returned to the barracks accompanied by Liang Jiahan, passing by the training camp of the armored brigade, Qiao Anbang saw a No. 4 tank rumbling towards him, and before it arrived, the huge No. 4 tank braked suddenly, and a young tanker got out of the tank and saluted Qiao Anbang with a snap: "Military seat!" ”

"Hmmm! Looks like you're familiar with tanks. Qiao Anbang looked at Zhang Yi with great satisfaction, half a month ago, Qiao Anbang incorporated Liang Haoyao and Zhang Yi, who returned from Germany, into the armored brigade and the reading garrison brigade respectively.

Zhang Yi's specialty is tanks and armored vehicles, he was assigned to the armored brigade to start as a tank soldier, Liang Haoyao is proficient in artillery and infantry majors, and he is assigned to a trainee officer of the Reading Force Garrison Brigade.

Zhang Yi is from a professional background, and he is no worse than the tank soldiers taught by Yali in the armored brigade, the only thing that is bad is actual combat experience, but his understanding of the internal structure of tanks and armored vehicles and all aspects of his surname is unmatched, even Zhang Xudong, the commander of the armored brigade.

In this way, Zhang Yi quickly mixed up in the armored brigade, and every day tank soldiers came to him to explain such and such questions, including some minor problems in the maintenance and maintenance of tanks and armored vehicles, and so on.

If it weren't for the fact that he had just enlisted in the army, Zhang Xudong would have planned to promote him to the position of military adviser of the whole brigade.

"Yes, Commander, that's what I studied in Germany!" Zhang Yi didn't squirm and responded heartily.

"Well, do a good job, teach more of the professional knowledge you have learned to other comrades-in-arms, so as to improve the overall level of your armored brigade." Qiao Anbang nodded.

"Yes! Please rest assured that the military seat will do so! Zhang Yi was very happy to receive Qiao Anbang's praise and immediately stepped forward.

Qiao Anbang nodded, and turned around with Liang Jiahan to leave. But an idea sprouted in his heart, but it was not very mature, that is, should he find an ally for the Tiger Army? Perhaps these two German overseas Chinese should be good bridge-builders.

(To be continued)