Chapter 3: Touching a stronghold

3 battalion headquarters, the instructor is walking around restlessly, the battalion commander took the soldiers to fight the Liu Jiaji stronghold, he did not approve, now the more he thinks about it, the more he regrets it, blame himself for not resolutely stopping the battalion commander at the beginning, 12 soldiers went to attack a little devil stronghold, in case the battalion commander has a mistake, how can he explain to the regiment commander.

Just when Fang Zheng's face was full of chagrin, the correspondent ran over with excitement on his face and said happily: "Instructor, the battalion commander, they are back, and they have brought back a lot of trophies." ”

"The battalion commander is back, and he brought back a lot of trophies." It took the instructor Fang a long time to come back to his senses, and then the eager team correspondent said; "Let's go, let's go, take me to see the battalion commander."

Seeing that the soldiers had returned to their stations safely and brought back so much trophies, the other soldiers were first surprised, and then they all gathered around to look at the trophies, and when they saw brand-new rifles, boxes of bullets and grenades, and especially when they saw that there were crooked machine guns and heavy machine guns, everyone's eyes were full of admiration when they looked at the special combat personnel, and their faces showed smiles.

Seeing such good equipment, Wang Haiyang, the commander of the first company, said to Zhang Yunfei with a sneer on his face; "Battalion commander, I like machine guns the most, so let's give us a company of these machine guns."

Before Zhang Yunfei could answer, Chen Erwa, the commander of the second company, and Qian Long, the commander of the third company, hurriedly said: "Wang Haiyang, you want to be beautiful." ”

Seeing that the three company commanders began to fight for equipment, Zhang Yunfei said: "Don't fight, let's have a meeting immediately, I have something to say." ”

Seeing that their battalion commander said that the meeting would be held immediately, everyone immediately stopped arguing and hurriedly walked to the conference room of the battalion headquarters.

In the conference room, Zhang Yunfei looked at everyone and said, "Today we took out the stronghold in Liujiazhen, and seized more than 30 Type 38 rifles, 3 crooked machine guns, one Type 92 heavy machine gun, more than 5,000 rounds of bullets, two boxes of grenades, and a radio station, more than 200 pieces of ocean, 3 gold bars, and a number of food and clothes. Among these things, the Type 38 rifle and the crooked handle machine gun are divided equally between each company, and the Type 92 heavy machine gun will be given to the first company first, and then divided into the second company and the third company after being captured. ”

"No comment," the three company commanders said in unison.

Zhang Yunfei looked at Fang Zheng again and said: "Instructor, the soldiers of our army are also too hard, except for the part that we will seize in the future, except for the part that is handed over to the regiment headquarters, the rest will be used to buy daily necessities such as food, clothing, etc." ”

"Okay, battalion commander, it's no problem, the soldiers are too hard." Fang Zheng said happily.

"Instructor, I want you to be in charge of the life and logistics of the troops again, the ocean and gold bars captured today are put there for you, now the weather is getting colder and colder, you send people to buy some cotton and cotton cloth tomorrow, mobilize women from several nearby villages to make clothes and shoes for the soldiers, you arrange for the clothes captured from the little devils today to be dismantled and redyed to make the military uniforms of our Eighth Route Army, in order to facilitate future management, you had better set up a clothing factory; And wait to go to the common people to buy a big fat pig, on the one hand, to improve the life of the soldiers, on the other hand, we also celebrate. ”

"Okay, I'll arrange it later." Founder Road.

In the middle of the night, the three battalions were stationed, 5 marching cauldrons lined up, the orange flames happily licked the bottom of the pot, the water in the pot was churning up and down, the fragrance of stewed meat wafted far away, and the soldiers lined up in a neat line and each received a bowl of stew from the hands of the cooking class, and enjoyed eating it very much.

The next day, the instructor Fang Zheng found dozens of women from several nearby villages to come over to make cotton clothes and pants, and seeing that there were a large number of people, Zhang Yunfei specially found a spacious small courtyard for reading, which was specially used to make clothes and shoes, and provided two meals for the women who came to help with things at noon and evening.

In addition, he sent a few clever soldiers to disguise themselves as ordinary people, and went to the county seat with the captured gold bars and the ocean, and secretly purchased a batch of cotton and cotton cloth back, believing that it would not be long before the soldiers could put on warm cotton clothes, cotton pants and cotton shoes......

In Xin'an County, 7 or 8 miles away from the garrison of the Third Battalion, Captain Watanabe Ichiro heard the chief of staff's report that the stronghold in Liujia Town had been attacked, and more than 30 warriors of the Imperial Army were so angry that they pulled out their command knives and slashed them on the table, and said to the chief of staff angrily: "Find out who did it?" ”

"Your Excellency, I don't know who did it yet." The chief of staff said.

"Check, check for me, who did it, let me find out who did it, it's dead."

"Hey." The chief of staff bowed his head and saluted.

"At the same time, I will step up the sweep of the surrounding villages."

"Hey." The chief of staff stood up and bowed his head and saluted......

In the following days, Zhang Yunfei strengthened the training of the troops, personally participated in demonstrations of shooting, bayonet fighting, and tactical coordination drills, and promptly corrected any mistakes made by the soldiers, and the military supervisors above the company and platoon level also strengthened the study of military theories and personally became teachers.

As for the special combat team, it mainly practiced on its own, and Zhang Yunfei only spent two or three hours a day guiding the training of the special combat team, and even so, the tactics and skill level of the special combat team have also improved significantly.

The clothing factory was also set up, and a few people from the non-combatants were drawn to the clothing factory as managers, and now the clothing factory has set up several small workshops, including a spinning workshop, which is responsible for spinning cotton into spindles; There is a weaving workshop, which is responsible for weaving cotton yarn into cloth; There is also a finished product workshop, which is responsible for making clothes, cotton shoes and quilts.

Originally, it was planned to recruit only a few dozen women comrades, but when several nearby villages heard that they were making clothes for the Eighth Route Army, they all actively signed up to participate, and finally recruited hundreds of people.

These women comrades were also very enthusiastic about their work, and they were able to make dozens of sets of clothes every day, and it was not long before the soldiers put on brand new cotton clothes and warm cotton shoes.

In terms of food, Zhang Yunfei bought all the oceans into food, and the soldiers could eat three meals a meal, and occasionally they could eat a meal of meat, but this kind of eating decree instructor Fang Zheng looked both happy and heartbroken, happy that with the improvement of food, the soldiers' physique is getting better and better, and the face that was full of vegetables before gradually has a ruddy complexion, and the heartache is that the ocean and gold bars seized last time are basically almost spent.

With food and clothing, although weapons were still very scarce, Zhang Yunfei still decided to expand the troops, and he knew very well that the ranks of the Eighth Route Army developed very quickly, from three divisions in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War to more than one million people when the Anti-Japanese War was won.

With the propaganda of the propaganda team, the recruitment work went very smoothly, and the young people in the nearby 100 miles enthusiastically participated in the Eighth Route Army, and it only took a few days to recruit more than 500 people, which was the result of Zhang Yunfei's deliberate control and screening, after all, in this era, the common people and the little devils have a deep hatred, and most of them joined the Eighth Route Army with the purpose of avenging their dead relatives, on the other hand, the Eighth Route Army is the team of the common people, and everyone is willing to participate.

Seeing the recruited fighters, Zhang Yunfei was very satisfied, these soldiers were all selected by themselves, they were all young and middle-aged, and there were no old, weak, sick or disabled. Zhang Yunfei unified these soldiers into a recruit company, organized into more than a dozen platoons, and carried out training in platoons, and the platoon commanders of the recruits were veterans selected from each company, who were both platoon commanders and instructors.

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