The next day, Su Tong got up groggily. patted his head and still hurt a little, picked up the cold boiled water on the table and drank it all, "Whew", much better.

Sitting on the bed, he lit a Hardman cigarette, and in a cloud of smoke, he thought about the next step for the militia. Now the vast majority of the remaining people in the militia group must be eliminated, but what to do with those who are eliminated? You can't just kick it away and ignore it. It is better to let the eliminated people form a separate farm, just like the construction corps of later generations, in the formation of the army, but not in the combat sequence, and is specifically responsible for growing food crops. There are also canneries, garment factories, and power plants, and there are a lot of things to do.

Reports

"Come in" Su Tong saw that it was Wang Dayong and Chen Dazhu who came in.

"Dayong, Dazhu, you are here, sit" Su Tong beckoned the two to sit down, and scattered cigarettes for the two, Chen Dazhu took the cigarette with a smile, but Wang Dayong smiled and waved his hand to refuse.

"Sir, County Magistrate Xi went back to the county early this morning, and the pistol company also went back."

"Well, I see, you came just in time, I was about to discuss something with you." Su Tong took a hard puff of his cigarette.

"Sir, please speak," the two said in unison.

Su Tong told the two of them what he had just considered. Chen Dazhu raised his hands in favor of the establishment of the farm. "Sir, now the old people and children here finally have a way to live. You don't know, Zhou Papi didn't say anything, but also called us to death, and gave us black beans (a ** ingredient) all day long, and occasionally sorghum rice mixed with sand, and he had to do private work for him."

Speaking of this, Chen Dazhu looked at Su Tong and thought to himself that this chief is not bad, he can think about us and give him a hard time. Chen Dazhu is upright, in his opinion, a commander who can think about his subordinates is a good chief, and he has to work hard for others to serve his job.

Su Tong smiled, "Okay, let's get down to business first, Dazhu, you are the head snake here, and you and I have been recruiting troops in the town together these days." Do it yourself, you can have enough food and clothing! ”

"Sir, no problem, I know this realm well."

"Dayong, do you have any talents in the 38th Division who can shoot artillery?"

Wang Dayong was stunned for a moment, and said without thinking: "Yes, the artillery battalion of our 38th Division is now basking in the sun at the division headquarters all day long. "The heavy equipment of the 29th Army of the Great Wall War of Resistance the year before last was almost completely lost under the indiscriminate bombardment of the military planes, and there were also many casualties. Without artillery, the artillerymen had nothing to do, either as infantry or at home.

"Well, Dayong, can you bring those people to us?"

"We don't have a big deal here? Tuanza, you're saying we're going to have a cannon? Wang Dayong couldn't believe his ears. Chen Dazhu was also grinning in astonishment.

"Look at what you said, why did I bother with all that effort without a gun?" Su Tong pouted.

"Yes, guaranteed to complete the mission." Wang Dayong was overjoyed and patted his chest.

Su Tong did not understand the preciousness of artillery at that time, taking the Central Army as an example, a division only had one artillery battalion with a total of more than 20 75-caliber mountain artillery and field artillery. However, a miscellaneous army like the 29th Army only has more than 10 field artillery and mountain artillery, which shows the rarity of artillery.

After explaining the artillery matter, Su Tong said to Chen Dazhu again: "Dazhu, you will pick out the young and middle-aged men in the regiment tomorrow, and the rest will be arranged on the farm." ”

"Yes, Tuanzao" Chen Dazhu shouted sincerely.

Zhao Quanyou is a native of Sunkou Village, Dabeigou Town, and he has followed his father to hunt since he was a child, and he is a well-known good hunter in ten miles and eight townships. But even with this good craft, the family is still tight. The twenty-year-old man can't even say a daughter-in-law, and today Zhao Quanyou came to the town with a robe, wanting to exchange some salt and go back.

Although there is a big character in the name of Dabeigou Town, the whole town is only one street. It doesn't take more than ten minutes to walk from the street to the end of the street. The street paved with gravel was dusty and crowded today, and Zhao Quanyou curiously asked the old man Lu who was buying vegetables next to him what was going on. The bearded old man Lu wiped the baby smoking gun in his hand with his sleeve that he couldn't see any color, and said with disdain: "It's not that the militia is going to recruit soldiers, I heard that the militia has a new chief, and now he is recruiting soldiers all over the street." I heard that the settling-in allowance alone will be given 50 yuan, and the monthly salary will be 5 yuan. ”

"Five oceans? My goodness. Zhao Quanyou deepened his tongue and calculated in his heart, five oceans a month, wouldn't it be sixty oceans in a year. plus the settling-in allowance is 110 yuan, then you can rebuild the family's old house, and you can even have the money to marry a daughter-in-law after two years.

Seeing Zhao Quanyou's longing on his face, Lu Laohan stretched out his big wrinkled hand and grabbed Zhao Quanyou's arm. said sharply: "Quanzi, I can tell you that your old Zhao family is the only seedling for you." You can't eat that severed head for fifty dollars like the stupid boys in front of you. If you have a good one, your mother must not cry to death. Two years ago, the one from your second aunt's family followed Feng Dashuai and Chairman Jiang to fight for the world, and once he went, he never came back. And "

Taking advantage of Lu Laohan's nagging, Zhao Quanyou broke free from Lu Laohan's hand and slipped into the crowd at once.

After a while, Zhao Quanyou, who had squeezed into the front of the crowd, saw a table set up in front of him, and a large group of people watched from the side. There were two people sitting next to him. Isn't this the pillar brother of his neighboring village, another long-looking and handsome officer, with two bars on his shoulders that he doesn't know what they mean and three stars, Zhao Quanyou stepped forward.

After Su Tong combed through the militia group, he found that he was about to become a bare-bones commander again, and there were less than twenty qualified soldiers left in the entire militia group. This hit the ambitious Su Tong hard, and he quickly accelerated the pace of conscription, and also let him release a soldier with a settling-in allowance of fifty yuan and a salary of five yuan a month.

In order to boost morale, he also specially put on the camouflage uniform of later generations and wore the rank of colonel, anyway, no one came to investigate whether he was an imposter at this time. Not to mention, it's kind of like that.

Looking at the eyes of everyone around him, our Grand Master Su looked left and right, and his vanity in his heart was greatly satisfied. At this time, I saw a sturdy young man with a robe in his hand walking forward, and Su Tong asked with a smile: "Young man, do you want to be a soldier?" ”

The young man's face turned red, and Nuo Nuo asked, "Boss, I want to ask, I heard that you have a settlement fee of fifty yuan, is it true?" ”

"Of course it's true, as long as you are between eighteen and twenty-eight years old, pass the physical examination, and have no previous convictions for annihilating criminals, you can become a soldier, and you will be given a settling-in allowance of 50 oceans as soon as you pass."

Chen Dazhu, who was next to him, said to Su Tong with a smile: "Tuanzuo, this young man is from my neighboring village, he is a famous hunter in ten miles and eight townships, and he is a good seedling." Quanzi, being a soldier is a job to pin your head to the belt of your pants, you have to think about it. The last sentence was said to Zhao Quanyou.

"Brother Zhuzi, I have thought about it. Rather than being poor for the rest of your life, it is better to give it a go. Zhao Quanyou gritted his teeth and said.

The next day, when Zhao Quanyou appeared at the entrance of the village wearing a flower suit (camouflage uniform), the whole village was in a sensation. When I returned home, my mother who was crying and wiping away tears when I learned that I was a soldier and my father, who was silent smoking a dry cigarette, saw the fifty yuan of ocean that Zhao Quanyou had taken out, and the old lady cried even more.

"Kid, let's return this ocean to the boss, we don't deserve this soldier." The old lady was very emotional.

Zhao Quanyou's father sighed: "Since you have taken other people's salaries, you are someone else's person." Quanzi, you have to remember that the people who go out of our old Zhao family must sit upright, and no matter what time it is, they must not lose the face of our old Zhao family. ”

"Yes, Dad, I remember"

Zhao Quanyou had dinner at home and rushed back to the militia station overnight.